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John of Damascus
c. AD 740 · 3 homilys
Three sermons for the feast of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God. They gather the older traditions about her death, burial and being taken up to heaven. This translation calls them sermons on the Assumption.
Translation by Mary H. Allies: St John Damascene on Holy Images, followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (London: Thomas Baker, 1898; Imprimatur of Cardinal Vaughan).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #49917, produced by Andrew Dunning from University of Toronto scans.