St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, Blue Point The Nativity of St. John the Baptist is a vital feast day in the Orthodox Church. His birth heralds the forthcoming birth of our Savior Jesus.

Second, this reading has no explicit connection to the resurrection. Jesus doesn’t mourn or raise his cousin, John, from the dead like he does with Lazarus. Instead, Mark’s Gospel tells us that John ...

Four places are most often associated with the relic of John the Baptist’s head — one is the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, ...

Today, we are six months away from last Christmas and next Christmas. The Church today celebrates the birth of Jesus’ senior relative, John the Baptist. John’s birth is described in the Bible ...

Today on the feast of the birth of St. John the Baptist, the Holy Father greeted pilgrims gathered under the hot June sun in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday recitation of the Angelus. To a ...

Christ's baptism by St. John the Baptist at the Jordan River is depicted in a stained-glass window at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. During Advent, we are extolled to prepare the ...

JERUSALEM — One American professor says the skeptics are wrong about John the Baptist's cave. After the Aug. 16 announcement that a cave that once housed John the Baptist had been found ...

This painting was once a panel from the important five-panel altarpiece commissioned by Queen Isabella for the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores near Burgos, site of the royal tombs of her parents ...

John Is His Name Pencil Preaching for June 24, 2019, The Birth of John the Baptist Spirituality Pencil Preaching ...

The second episode of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Fox Nation series "The Saints" focuses on John the Baptist, a pillar of Christianity and the patron saint of converts.

Peter Paolucci gives tours at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, helping visitors understand and appreciate its history. “No Catholics were allowed to settle here until after the Revolutionary War, ...