John was raised in Antioch, a leading intellectual center of late antiquity, by his widowed mother, ... John Chrysostom born. 407. John Chrysostom dies. 410. Rome sacked by Visigoths.

John Chrysostom affirmed, along with St. Paul (see 1 Corinthians 8:11), the primacy of each individual Christian, of the person as a person, including both the slave and the poor man.

In 438 the Emperor Theodosius II of Constantinople had John’s body returned to Constantinople and did penance for the sins of his mother Eudoxia. Chrysostom's many writings, especially homilies ...

Therefore, John Chrysostom makes the following recommendation: “From a very young age, arm children with spiritual weapons and teach them to make the Sign of the Cross on their foreheads” (see ...

St. John Chrysostom's life and preaching, the Pope taught, were also a witness to the essential unity of the Church: “The faithful in Rome,” he quoted the Greek saint as saying, “consider ...