St. John of Damascus (Reliquary) 

And yells at you while healing you

Yes!!! I find it so hard to read the fathers but that letter still had a bit of humour, hundreds of years later and translated

@@eho6380 you complained about people mocking your religion , yet here you mock our Saints. Have you even read St John of Damascus : The heresy of the Ishmaelites?

@@eho6380 go right ahead debunk it

@@eho6380 Neither is every islamic apologetics arguments to be honest, because literraly every islami polemics is based on the missuderstandings of essence and persons

@@eho6380 And "grumpy old man with a narrow point of view" isn't that more of a muhammad things , than St John of Damascus. One is a philosopher and the other is someone who can't even get the Trinity right(nvm that's Allah)

Hmmm... Antioch Ignatius. Calcutta Teresa. Lima Rose.

Yes! Thank you so much for this! Comming to Orthodoxy, St. John of Damascus was a great insipration and spiritual father to me. Speaking of "of Places" saints, one Western saint might be worthwhile to make a video on. The "Mary of Ireland" St. Bridget of Kildare

Ah, that reminds me of my church... after we say "YEEE-HAWWW!" and toss our hats into the air. It was pretty dang-tootin' good.

@@miesrah12 through he's letters to the Roman emperor about icons I have learnt different ways to defend icons.

@@miesrah12 St Bridget is an Orthodox saint as is St Patrick

Such an honor!!!

>everyone's favorite >EVERYONE'S favorite

@@proletarianwoes5568 Yes. Everyone's!

Ah, John Chrysostom, the saint that called the Christians to massacre Jews.

@@eho6380 as if Muhammad didn’t call for the killing of Non-Muslims?? And your book even calls Jews Christians and Idolators as the worst of creatures.

@@eho6380 Just to be clear, they're a cursed people since 70 A.D.

So glad to know Karen! I plan to do many saints! :-)

yeah but id recommend trisagion films for further knowledge of the saints lives

Will definitely do a video on him, I've got an icon of him in my icon corner :-)

Wynona Fudd Made me giggle too! 😄

Interesting to know :-)

He also ended up being venerated by the non-Chalcedonian Ethiopians

@@-daniel7791 indeed. The Ethiopians have a lot of strange canonizations

Hah glad you liked it so much, Dallas! :-) Hope to make much more!

Awww, now I don't get to make it :-(

(Actually, it's "No women *other than the Theodokos* allowed on Mount Athos, or else _she_ gets angry. And you won't like when _she_ gets angry")

Yup!

Interestingly based on evidence Christianity probably existed in Ireland far before St. Patrick, it was a long process. I pray Ireland repeals its abortion madness....

​@@seronymus I'm with you. Legalized abortion is a great tragedy in our time.

@Jamestown it aches my heart so because I'm part Celtic and Orthodox and a fan of early medieval history, and all this together means I LOVE Ireland and the British Isles in general for hosting a golden age of hundreds of saints for nearly a thousand years (although most was ~500 - 800s AD). May all the saints pray fervently for their people who contributed so much to the world.... I have weeped for the state of Europe in general honestly. Lord have mercy . At least all the innocent babies are saved with Christ now.

@Skim Milk 2 Saint Patrick died well before the Great Schism.

@Skim Milk 2 What are you talking about? All I said was that Saint Patrick died before the Great Schism, so as a result the Catholic and Orthodox Churches both venerate him as a Saint.

I don't think I can make a proper video on finding a spouse, as I'm single myself, but I found this video VERY illuminating and giving some sound advice: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eMoBELOiGMk.html Also, big suggestion for you: immediately unsubscribe from any news outlets. Like, right now. They're causing you tons of distress and anxiety, and for no good reason. This would include anything that would expose you to 'news' by proxy (meme groups, for example). Personally, I don't care much for whoever experiments with what as I can't influence it in any way. Just stop watching the news, brother.

@@BibleIllustrated I just recently withdrew from Twitter and Facebook b/c Twitter is distressing (may as well not worry; God has it under control) and Facebook is mostly silly talk about nonessential subjects, like recipes and people bragging about whatever. (But I did yesterday get back on Facebook just to follow an Orthodox priest.)

.... Fatima!

Amen

Precisely :-)

Sure will! :-) Well, eventually.

I didn't expect someone non Greek to know it If you go to the church in Filiatra the marble tile in front of the saint's icon, is still cracked from the salute that the german commander did with his foot

Vasileios Morossidis Surprise!Its ok, a lot of Greeks don’t know about the miracles of Celtic Saints in Scotland either. St. Mina is another favorite WWII miracle in Egypt fighting the Nazi’s www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/11/miracle-of-saint-menas-in-el-alamein-in.html?m=1 And the miracle in Greece when the Virgin Mary appears and stops the Nazi tanks in Greece www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/09/miracle-of-panagia-in-orchomenos-on.html

St. Seraphim will be the next Reliquary episode :-)

I assumed he did. :-)

Well he could read the Quran in the original and make arguments and debates against the muslims

The Fatima children did not ask for the Virgin to come ti them.

I'll make a video on it and post it on my other channel, Bible Illustrated Hands, in about two weeks :-)

Read Saint John of Damascus writings on it

And thank you to the Muslims who donated the funds to restore the crumbling Church of the Holy Nativity in Bethlehem!

Will answer on Bible Illustrated hands :-)

Answered it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-88c-krwY0vU.html

Yup!

@@BibleIllustrated why is it that he is known as Damascene and of Damascus? Is it purely just linguistically?

@@jackharwood3868 yup, "Damascene" literally means "of Damascus"

Yup! Something you don't have guaranteed in the lives of the saints :-)

@@BibleIllustrated So true.

Oh, indeed he can. The caliph was a rather benevolent ruler. :-)

@Dylan Chouinard Oh well, after being conquered by them.

​@@BibleIllustratedThen why hate Islam?

Yes.

I will make a separate video on this here, but in the meantime I answered it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_az7uuY6Wj8.html

You could 1300 years ago.

@@RobertTaylor87 Indeed! The Church will break down the gates of Hell and conquer Death along with Our Divine Head, who has conquered it already! The only ones I see promoting disunity here are the Russian Church. She is willing to refuse to recognise bishops and priests who, for decades were simply not under her authority, but in all other things kept the Faith. As a Catholic, I do not understand the point of such a schism. I understand the point of the Great Schism - you consider us heretics. I understand that. I also understand that churches have schisms over liturgics, as in the Old Calendarists and the Starovery (and the SSPX in the Catholic Church). But the Kiev Patriarchate and the Autonomous Church were not heretics, as I understand, and weren't changing the liturgy. They simply refused to be under the yoke of the ROC. I don't get why the ROC must have jurisdiction over Ukraine.

@@badgerlordpatrick6493 They are schismatics, and you know that schism is a sin too.

@@MrDavicovic What I find strange is that it's almost always the Traditionalists and dissenters from the new teaching or practise who make the schism. First it was the Church of the East. Then the Miaphysites. Then the Eastern Orthodox. Then the Old Catholics. Then various Traditionalist and Sedevacantist sects. We don't schism from them. They schism from us. And then gradually some of them come back. (Protestants are exceptions to this because they proclaimed a new heresy: sola scriptura.)

@@badgerlordpatrick6493 So you are in an Orthodox video and you are calling us schismatics? Lol

Robert Taylor Monotheism had gone to far, and showed weakness of organized system like Churches. Ortohodxy especially with their ‘privileged’ view they have upon themselves - we are the only true Church etc. That last Ukranian scenario is a reminder how far Orthodoxy is from any ‘universality’, its just a bridge that connects nationalism & tribalism. Serbian & Russian Chruch exists in lowest form, being a comfort zone for a lot of idiotic nationalists with Bishops on their syde. Russian Holy Synod is full of KGB agents. Its kinda frustrating, but there is always a way to stay outside of that organized structure that is falling apart. What sometimes was promosing insitution, today is open door for every superstition & stupidity. One can only have respect for institution itself, in terms how it survived 2000yrs, but being a part of that today its a pretty harmful thing for individuals.

Једва стижем, иде споро

So tell me what do you believe in?.

I didn't see any fairy.

Says someone with a naked pop singer on her icon. Dirty Stesia.

Mmm sorry but St John and everyone in this video is historical. I don't know what you mean here.

I believe in fairies too, not sure whats the trouble? Stories like this are here to encourage us and show us diffrent way of approaching this thing called life. In this case, for example, that miracle with cut hand is hardly historically accurate. Even if we think of probability that could happen as a unique phenomena - its meaningless concept. But we take it as it is, a story, cautionary tale. Life of Saints are used through history to spark ghost in us or even to amuse majority who was usually illitarate. Also through history we had big temples, churches, icons for which John of Damascus fight for in this story, all that is used to approach majority and keep faith and dogmas safe. I doubt that today christans think we need some spectacular temples with all icons in them to worship Holy Trinity, but unfortunately they still have oldschool autocrats in high positions. We can always read actual books written by John Damascus, but majority can still amuse themselves with this cute little tales, and that is ok. 🌷🌺