This is a comprehensive monograph on Saint Germanos I the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople, who lived and acted at the beginning of the Iconoclasm (8th century).
Details of his life and writings are illuminated. Their handwritten tradition is presented and the teaching of St. Germanos is extensively discussed.
It is a contribution to the period of the Iconoclasm, as well as to the period of the Patristic Literature and History. An overview is given of the historical, spiritual, and political climate of the time in relation to the personality and activity of this important but unknown to many, great Hierarch of the Iconophiles.
Peace in the Church and the State, faith in the Orthodox tradition of previous centuries, and constructive literary production are characteristic elements of the life and work of St. Germanos.