een leerling van ene Cosmas
zijnde een van de moslims door zijn vader - omwille van diens grote geleerdheid - vrijgekochte christelijke slaaf !!
"...his education in Damascus having been conducted in accordance with the principles of Hellenic education, termed 'secular' by one source and 'classical christian' by another...
"One account identifies his tutor as a monk by the name of Cosmas, who had been kidnapped by Arabs from his home in Sicily, and for whom John's father paid a great price...
"Under the instruction of Cosmas, who also taught John's orphan friend - the future saint Cosmas of Maiuma, 'poet of the Holy City' - John is said to have made great advances in music, astronomy and theology, soon rivalling Pythagoras in arithmetic and Euclid in geometry...
"As a refugee from Italy, Cosmas brought with him the scholarly traditions of Latin Christianity."
~wikipedia~
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