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2 days ago · The Latin church of Madaba was recognized by the Vatican as a Shrine of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, on December 7th, 1967, and encouraged pilgrims to visit this Sacred Site. On August 26th, 2011, the former patriarch Fuad Twal consecrated and blessed the shrine of Saint John in the old castle rooms underneath the church and monastery.
1 day ago · The beheading of John the Baptist in Matthew 14:8-11. Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of dry bones that come to life as an army in Ezekiel 37. The Romans perfected the death sentence by crucifixion leading to Jesus’s own in Matthew 27.
18 hours ago · Drunk with wine, Herod swore to give her whatever she asked, up to half of his kingdom. Advised by her wicked mother, the shameless dancer asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Herod was distressed but did not want to break his oath and ordered the beheading of Saint John the Baptist and gave it to Salome, which was done.
2 days ago · The Beheading of St John the Baptist (Ludwig Oppenheimer: St John the Baptist, Rochdale, 1933) The Last Supper (Ludwig Oppenheimer: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Bulwell, 1949) The Nativity (Boris Anrep: Notre Dame de France, 1954) The Road to Damascus (Boris Anrep: Westminster Cathedral, 1961-1965)
2 days ago · Eerdmans, October 2024. At the outset of my first (and hopefully not last) full-year sabbatical, I set out to do something I had never done before. I planned to write two books about John the Baptist: a biography accessible to a general audience and a monograph detailing the distinctive methodology and contributions of my study. As the ...
3 days ago · “John the Baptist with the Scribes and Pharisees” is an oil painting from ca. 1655 that now hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. The figure of John, in camel-hair clothing and bearing a cross staff, recurs in Murillo’s paintings: we saw its basic outline on this Sunday last year.
3 days ago · By Marinella Bandini. Amman, Jordan, Jan 13, 2024 / 15:00 pm – CNA. For 2,000 years, since Jesus descended into the waters of the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist, the river has been a pilgrimage site for Christians from around the world. And on the banks of that river, for the past 24 years, on the second Friday of January ...
