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| | San Jose Mercury News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Facing the east and San Jose's colorful Rose Garden, Bates recited a prayer along with 70 other members of San Jose's Baha'i community Wednesday, commemorating the execution of their prophet, the Bab, in 1850. |
 | | Baha'i's equate the Bab, which means ``the gate,'' with Christianity's John the Baptist, in that both prophets heralded the coming of their saviors. |
 | | On July 9, 1850, according to Baha'i followers, 750 members of an army unit carried out the orders of the Persian government and fired their muskets at Mirza `Ali-Muhammad, also known as the Bab. |
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