John Chrysostom

John was born in Antioch in Syria and raised by his widowed mother. He studied rhetoric under the famous pagan teacher Libanius, then turned to the monastic life and spent years living as a hermit in the mountains, until his health broke. Back in Antioch he was ordained a priest and became the city's great preacher. His sermons, explaining books of the Bible verse by verse and applying them to daily life, drew huge crowds, and he was later called Chrysostom, meaning golden-mouthed. In 387, after rioters smashed statues of the emperor and the city feared terrible punishment, he preached a series of sermons called the Homilies on the Statues. In 398 he was made archbishop of Constantinople. There he cut the expenses of his household, gave to the poor and hospitals, and denounced luxury among the rich and at court, offending the empress Eudoxia. His sermons against Jews in Antioch were harsh and were later misused. He was deposed and exiled twice, and died in 407 while being marched to a more remote place of exile.

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Faith: Christian archbishop of Constantinople and famous preacher; venerated as a saint by Orthodox and Catholic churches. Source: Wikipedia