Nevertheless, a following of him is lovely and magnificent." It is impossible to cover the entire life of St John Chrysostom in a few pages. However apart from providing a very brief outline of his ...

Saint John Chrysostom Born in Antioch ... after three years of study and set out for the desert to live the ascetic life of a hermit. His extreme mortifications left him in fragile health ...

From the years 374 to 381 he lived the monastic life in the hermitages that were near Antioch ... this return of his holy relics is celebrated on January 27. Saint John was surnamed Chrysostom ...

With St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) we have the first homily per se on the Transfiguration ... So as to prepare His disciples for the trials that they were about to endure in this life (cf. John ...

In 400 he entered into the discipleship of St. John Chrysostom, going to Rome to defend ... His two main writings, Institutes of the Monastic Life and Conferences on the Egyptian Monks, were ...