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2 days ago · The Beheading of John the Baptist Feast day: Aug 29. On this day, the universal Church marks the beheading of John the Baptist, who prepared the way for Jesus. As an adult, he lived as a...
Jun 18, 2024 · Machaerus is the infamous setting of the beheading of John the Baptist. The historian Josephus corroborates a story from the Gospels in which John the Baptist condemned Herod Antipas’s marriage to his brother’s wife, Herodias.
Jun 23, 2024 · St. John the Baptist’s condemnation of Herod Antipas’ unlawful marriage to Herodias led to his imprisonment and eventual beheading, as requested by Herodias’ daughter, Salome. Speaking of him, the Savior Himself said: “Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist ...
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Jun 22, 2024 · St. John the Baptist was a Jewish prophet revered in Christianity as the forerunner of Jesus Christ. He preached the imminence of God’s Final Judgment and baptized those who repented in self-preparation for it.
- St. John the Baptist was an ascetic Jewish prophet known in Christianity as the forerunner of Jesus. John preached about God’s Final Judgment and b...
- St. John the Baptist was the son of Zechariah, a Jewish priest of the order of Abijah, and his wife, Elizabeth. According to the New Testament, Eli...
- Sometime after baptizing Jesus, St. John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas for denouncing his marriage, which was illegal under Jewish La...
Jul 9, 2024 · ( Mark 6.22–23) And this is almost immediately followed by his nemesis, his downfall, made the more stinging by his daughter asking not just for the head of John the Baptist, as her mother had directed her, but asking for it ‘right now’ and ‘on a platter’.
5 days ago · Tradition holds that today St. John the Baptist was beheaded. Today, we mark his martyrdom. The account of his murder is today’s Gospel: Mark 6:17-29. St. John the Baptist was, of course, a key figure announcing the Advent of Jesus. He accompanies us through much of Advent.
The veneration of the beheading of John the Baptist gained popularity in Russia during the age of Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1529-1584), whose name day fell on the day of the holiday dedicated to the saint’s martyrdom (29 August).
