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Definition of St. John Chrysostom
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Church Father, Father, Father Of The Church, Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Preacher, Preacher Man, Sermoniser, Sermonizer, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of St. John Chrysostom
Literary usage of St. John Chrysostom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"the Doctor in him predominates over the orator, if he possèdes less of colour,
of opulence, of actuality, and of Oriental charm than St. John Chrysostom, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... of the arrival of the Polos at their family mansion in the parish of St.
John Chrysostom, of their appearance at its door in worn and outlandish garb, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"St. John Chrysostom (AD 347-407) BY JOHN MALONE STRONG soldier of the Cross and
from good fighting stock was that John of Antioch who, among the people that ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1901)
"His Eudoxia ; who has sullied her fame by the persecution of St John Chrysostom.
41 The sixth book of Socrates, the eighth of Sozomen, and the fifth of ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"... himself to the mild and absolute dominion of his wife, the fair and artful
Eudoxia, who has sullied her fame by the persecution of St. John Chrysostom. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a collection of sermons and homilies from St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, ...
a collection of the homilies recited by St. John Chrysostom at Antioch; ..."
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