Saint Joan de Tessalònica el Vell

John of Thessalonica (in Latin, Joannes) was Archbishop of Thessalonica in the 7th century. He was an important defender of the Orthodox faith against 7th-century Monothelitism. He attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) in 680 as a papal legate and subscribed to the acts of the council. The date of his death is unknown. He wrote: 1. *Eis tas myrophorous gynaikas* (In Mulieres ferentes Unguenta), a treatise demonstrating that there is no contradiction between the various versions of Christ's resurrection given by the four evangelists. Some authors consider this work to have been written by John Chrysostom. 2. *Logos* (Oratio). Nicholas, Bishop of Cyzicus, read a considerable portion of this text in public during the Second Council of Nicaea (the Seventh Ecumenical Council).