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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Chrysorrhoas
Tomorrow, the Latin Church remembers...Interesting that the "Doctor of Christian Art," the great defender of icons, should have lived in Damascus under the ultimate iconoclasts, the Muslims. [Notice the splendid Arabic calligraphy on the icon.]

John Chrysorrhoas ("golden-stream") was the author of, among more important works, Barlaam and Ioasaph, "a retelling of the Buddha Legend from within a Christian context, with the singular difference that the 'Buddha' in this tale reaches enlightenment through the love of Jesus Christ."