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	St. John the Baptist - Olga's Gallery
		John the Baptist, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist,
		John the Baptist, Madonna and Child Enthroned with St. John the Baptist, St. Victor, St. Bernard and St. Zenobius ("Altarpiece of the Otto di Pratica").
		The Adoration, with the Infant Baptist and St. Bernard.
	www.abcgallery.com /saints/john.html (676 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. John the Baptist
		For instance, St. Peter of Alexandria believed St. John was taken into the desert to escape the wrath of Herod, who, if we may believe report, was impelled by fear of losing his kingdom to seek the life of the Precursor, just as he was, later on, to seek that of the new-born Saviour.
		John languished probably for some time in the fortress of Machaerus; but the ire of Herodias, unlike that of Herod, never abated: she watched her chance.
		John's disciples, hearing of his death, "came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb" (Mark, vi, 29), "and came and told Jesus" (Matt., xiv, 12).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08486b.htm (5352 words)

	St. John's: Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
		The Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is the mother church for the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Dating from 1699, the Parish of St. John the Baptist is the oldest Anglican parish in North America.
		The cathedral in St. John's is but one of over 700 design and restoration projects that Scott took part in during his career.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /society/rhs/rs_listing/097.html (967 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint John the Baptist
		from a sermon by Saint Augustine on the birth of John the Baptist
		So they came to John and said to him, 'Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you testified, here he is baptizing and everyone is coming to him.' John answered and said, 'No one can receive anything except what has been given him from heaven.
		The girl hurried back to the king's presence and made her request, "I want you to give me at once on a platter the head of John the Baptist." The king was deeply distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests he did not wish to break his word to her.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintj02.htm (1029 words)

	CIN - St. John Joseph of the Cross
		John Joseph of the Cross was canonized on Trinity Sunday.
		Was St. Bernard a violator of the sentiments of humanity, when he followed with tearless eyes and calm countenance the body of his brother to the grave, assisting at all the offices of religion, and officiating thereat himself?
		Suffering himself to be overcome by their entreaties' he undertook the advocacy of their cause with the pontiff, and succeeded, in a congregation held in 1702, in changing the sentiments of the cardinals and bishops.
	www.cin.org /saints/johnjoe.html (3201 words)

	John the Baptist
		Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, central panel in the Epiphany triptych, Hieronymous Bosch, c 1490.
		John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 1490-95.
		The Birth of St. John the Baptist, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1635.
	www.textweek.com /art/john_the_baptist.htm (928 words)

	St John the Baptist and Forerunner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John the Baptist, was the son of Zachariah, a temple priest, and his wife Elizabeth, who was a cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
		John also denounced the incestuous relationship of Herod Antipas with his niece and brother's wife, Herodias, and was imprisoned for doing so.
		John the Baptist was believed to be buried in Samaria where he was honoured in the 4th century, but the tomb was desecrated by Julian the Apostate.
	home.it.net.au /~jgrapsas/pages/forerunner.htm (248 words)

	St. John Baptist de la Salle Biography
		John Baptist was the eldest child of Louis de la Salle and Nicolle de Moet de Brouillet.
		Canon Pierre Dozet, chancellor of the University of Reims, was the presiding officer at the academic sessions, and in the discharge of his function had opportunity to study the character of his young cousin, de la Salle, with the result that he determined on resigning his canonry in his favor.
		He gave an impetus to the higher educational progress which is the distinctive mark of modern times, and bequeathed to is own disciples, and to educators in general, a system of teaching which is adaptable to the wants of school-going youth in every country.
	www.edocere.org /st_john_baptist_salle_bio.htm (6359 words)

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - St. John the Baptist
		John the Baptist was the son of Zachary, a priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, and Elizabeth, a kinswoman of Mary who visited her.
		John was beheaded at the request of Salome, daughter of Herodias, who asked for his head at the instigation of her mother.
		John is presented in the New Testament as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the precursor of the Messiah.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=152 (322 words)

	St. John Baptist de la Salle
		John Baptist de la Salle, educational pioneer, founder of the world-wide Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, commonly called the Christian Brothers, was born in the cathedral town of Rheims, France, on April 30, 1651.
		Father John Baptist soon decided to resign his canonry to devote his full attention to the establishment of schools and the training of teachers.
		Father John Baptist's later years were spent at the College of St. Yon, in Rouen, where the novitiate had been transferred in 1705, after it had functioned for some years in Paris.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/LASALLE.htm (1277 words)

	The Hospitallers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland.
		The Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus.
		"The Militarisation of the Hospital of St. John." Studia Monastica 26 (1984):75-89.
	www.adambennington.com /military_orders/hospitallers.html (5290 words)

	The Nativity of the Honourable Forerunner, St. John the Baptist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		St John's is the only saint's birthday celebrated throughout the church calendar year.
		John is remembered on three other days as well, but they all deal with the discovery of his Holy relics.
		The presence of St. John and his disciples was not felt until about one year before the beginning of the ministry of Jesus.
	cygnus.uwa.edu.au /~jgrapsas/pages/st_john.htm (268 words)

	Malcolm Barber, "The Charitable and Medical Activities of the Hospitallers and Templars, Eleventh to Fifteenth ...
		Originally it had been dedicated to the Cypriot holy man, St John the Almoner, appropriately in William of Tyre's view, since he was 'a man particularly excelling in works of piety, whose pious zeal and liberal almsgiving will be recalled for ever in every church of the saints'.
		Fourteen paupers were fed and served at table in the hall of the Knights three days each week, while on the other three days outdoor relief was provided for those who came the hospital, some of whom, he thought, borrowed other people's children to carry in their arms in the hope of obtaining more bread.
		T.S. Miller, 'The Knights of Saint John and the Hospitals of the Latin West', Speculum 53 (1978), 709-33.
	www.ecu.edu /history/whichard/MBarberCharitable.htm (7039 words)

	MIT: Template #3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John the Baptist Parish has been a Catholic presence in Ohio County for over 100 years.
		There is no resident priest, as St. John is a mission parish of St. Mary of the Woods Parish, Whitesville.
		A Catholic sister resides at St. John, ministering to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
	www.owensborodio.org /parishes/john-ky-fords (145 words)

	St. John Baptist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The death of St. John the Baptist is reported in varying amounts of detail throughout the synoptic Gospels and Mark and Matthew report the event with the most detail.
		In Mark's Gospel, John was arrested and imprisoned because of King Herod's fear of him.
		John had been openly censuring Herod for taking his sister-in-law as his own wife, and Herod was afraid that John's preaching would start a revolt against him.
	www.catholic-forum.com /themes/st_john_baptist.htm (276 words)

	CIN - ST JOHN OF MATHA, FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF THE TRINITARIANS
		(A.D. St. John was born of very pious and noble parents, at Faucon, on the borders of Provence, June the 24th, 1169, and was baptized John, in honour of St. John the Baptist.
		They found Innocent III promoted to the chair of St. Peter, who being already informed of their sanctity and charitable design by letters of recommendation from the Bishop of Paris, his holiness received them as two angels from heaven, lodged them in his own palace, and gave them many long private audiences.
		John made a second voyage to Tunis in 1210 in which he suffered much from the infidels, enraged at his zeal and success in exhorting the poor slaves to patience and constancy in their faith.
	www.cin.org /saints/matha.html (1459 words)

	St. John the Baptist's Parish Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church are called by Jesus to be a community of his disciples, growing in faith and worshiping together in Eucharistic celebration.
		John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, along with the Hillsdale United Methodist Church, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and the Pascack Bible Church, helps to sustain the Helping Hand Food Pantry.
		John's Parish is one of four co-sponsoring parishes of St. John's Academy.
	www.rc.net /newark/st_johnbaptist (1135 words)

	DLS System : Lasalliana : Saint John Baptiste de La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born at Reims into a devout and influential family, John Baptist de La Salle received the tonsure at age eleven and was named Canon of the Reims Cathedral at sixteen.
		Catholic Encyclopedia: St. John Baptist de la Salle - Essay on the founder of the Christian Brothers.
		John Baptist de la Salle, Saint - Brief biographical entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia.
	system.dlsu.edu.ph /lasalliana/lasalle.asp (536 words)

	History of the Order of Malta
		The Order of St. John was founded before the taking of Jerusalem in 1099 by the armies of the First Crusade.
		The navy of the Order of St. John (or of Malta as it now came to be called) became one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean and took part in the final destruction of the Ottoman naval might in the great battle of Lepanto in 1571.
		In 1607 and again in 1620, the dignity of Grand Master was conjoined with the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and in 1630 with the rank equal to the dignity of a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church with the style of Eminence.
	www.smommuseum.ch /files/history/history.html (1237 words)

	St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Baptismal Records
		Everett was baptized by William Kreis, assistant at St. Lawrence Church in Lawrenceburg, IN.
		Mary was baptized by Rev. William Kries of St. Lawrence Church in Lawrenceburg, IN.
		Was married at St. Michael?s in Brookville, IN by Rev Herman J. Kasper.
	home.earthlink.net /~kedespo/Pages/family/stjohnbrec.html (542 words)

	St John The Baptist-History
		John the Baptist Catholic School, a ministry of St. John the Baptist Church, provides for the spiritual and academic needs of children (K-8) from our parish and community.
		The primary goal of St. John’s School is to form well-rounded Christian students.
		We at St. John’s always strive to maintain the highest academic standards by constantly updating classroom materials and coordinating the latest technology with the present classroom curriculum.
	www.stjohnsschool.us /History.htm (545 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. John Baptist de la Salle
		Canon Pierre Dozet, chancellor of the University of Reims, was the presiding officer at the academic sessions, and in the discharge of his function had opportunity to study the character of his young cousin, de la Salle, with the result that he determined on resigning his canonry in his favour.
		But young de la Salle insisted that he was called to serve the Church, and accordingly he received the tonsure 11 March, 1662, and wa solemnly installed as a canon of the metropolitan See of Reims, 7 January, 1667.
		Julie Postel, in 1802-all exemplify in the character of their work and in the rules adopted, a striking similarity to the methods and aims proposed by Saint John Baptist de la Salle in founding the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08444a.htm (6238 words)

	Leonardo DaVinci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Many people are critical of this work, finding it a disturbing representation of a character normally portrayed as gaunt and fiery, living in a desert and surviving on a diet of locusts and honey.
		In Leonardo's painting St. John seems almost to be a hermaphrodite.
		John the Baptist and their work appears in various collections.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /leonardo/john.html (401 words)

	St John the Baptist by GHIBERTI, Lorenzo
		Ghiberti entered the Orsanmichele arena in 1412 with the first bronze and his first large-scale figure, St John the Baptist, for the Arte di Calimala.
		The work, cast in one piece, was so difficult to execute that the guild stipulated it be undertaken at the sculptor's risk.
		Although St John appears to epitomize the International Gothic style, his scroll is inscribed with what is thought to be an early example of humanist script.
	www.wga.hu /html/g/ghiberti/st_john.html (163 words)

	St. John's School - St. John's School
		Parents send their children to St. John’s not only to strengthen their overall faith, but also to learn values and morals necessary for a full and productive life.
		John’s meets the academic needs of students because we live our faith throughout the entire school day and we teach our faith as the foundation of all subjects.
		Through this unique educational environment, students are encouraged to discern and develop their talents and reach academic success.
	stjohns.il.schoolwebpages.com (138 words)

	St. John's Church - Shenstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The present church is neo-Gothic in style of architecture but spacious enough for the traditional St. Peter's Chapel to the south.
		In St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians we also read about putting armour on but it is quite a different armour to what the soldiers wear today or even those of yesteryear wore.
		St. John the Baptist - Armitage - near Lichfield
	www.lichfield.anglican.org /lichfield/lichfield/shenstone (1192 words)

	St. John the Baptist Parish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		One of the 22 Acadiana parishes, St. John the Baptist Parish is located in southeast Acadiana, and its parish seat is Edgard.
		John has 12 public and 6 private schools, and its major crop is sugarcane.
		6.29 percent of St. John’s population is Cajun (1990).
	www.cajunculture.com /Places/stjohnpar.htm (121 words)

	Welcome to St. John the Baptist!
		Welcome to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, located (map) at 7 Houghton Street, in North Bennington, Vermont.
		John the Baptist Catholic Church is a community of baptized people who have, as their common goals: to love, model, teach, serve, and celebrate Christ in our lives.
		Copyright © 2004 St, John the Baptist Catholic Church.
	www.sjtbcc-vt.org (198 words)

	Saint John's Church
		John Rich, whose entry in the burial register records his occupation as 'comedian' was the originator of English pantomime and lessee throughout his life of the theatre that later became Covent Garden Opera House.
		Although he was unsuccessful in his application to the post that was screened, this was very much to the benefit of St John's Church, which is fortunate to have as its vicar, a person who is enthusiastic, hard-working and a great preacher of sermons!
		Full details of St. John's policy for weddings and baptisms may be obtained from the Vicar.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~hindmsh (1381 words)

	Knights of Columbus, St. John the Baptist, Council 8891, New Freedom, Pa. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The St. John the Baptist Council is located at St.
		John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Freedom, Pa. on Constitution Avenue.
		The St. John the Baptist Council works closely with the St. John the Baptist Parish in New Freedom and the surrounding areas of Glen Rock, Seven Valleys, Shrewsbury and other Southern York County communities.
	www.southernyorkcounty.com /org/KC8891 (155 words)

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