Where Is The Head Of John The Baptist?

[Alonzo Tanner]

It's written that John was beheadded. What happened to it?

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's written that John was beheadded. What happened to it?

Its laying beside the Ark of the Covenant.

 

[epronovost]

According to the Catholic Church, the fragment of head on display at the San Silvestro in Capite cathedral is believed to be a relic of John te Baptist. The Greek Orthodox Church also claim to have a part of his skull in John the Baptist Chuch in Jerusalem. Islamic tradition holds that the head is in his alledged tomb in the grand mosque of Damascus which used to be a Christian basilica. The Cathedral of Amien also claims to have a fragment of the skull of John the Baptist that was stolen during the sacking of Constantinople during the fourth crusade. A couple of private collectors in Germany and Turkey also claim to have it or portions of it and it wouldn't be complete with the medieval myth that the Templars actually held it and venerated the relic in question.

Either some of these people are fabulating or John actually had 5 heads and that's not counting his other body parts who make for popular relics too.

 

[ValdresRose]

Is this a metaphor? and if it is it has some very interesting connotations. Your too clever for your age young fella.

 

[Deeje]

This is in quizzes....what's the punch line?

 

[Twilight Hue]

According to the Catholic Church, the fragment of head on display at the San Silvestro in Capite cathedral is believed to be a relic of John te Baptist. The Greek Orthodox Church also claim to have a part of his skull in John the Baptist Chuch in Jerusalem. Islamic tradition holds that the head is in his alledged tomb in the grand mosque of Damascus which used to be a Christian basilica. The Cathedral of Amien also claims to have a fragment of the skull of John the Baptist that was stolen during the sacking of Constantinople during the fourth crusade. A couple of private collectors in Germany and Turkey also claim to have it or portions of it and it wouldn't be complete with the medieval myth that the Templars actually held it and venerated the relic in question.

Either some of these people are fabulating or John actually had 5 heads and that's not counting his other body parts who make for popular relics too.

Theres also a bunch of bones in Bulgaria that people think is John the Baptist....

John the Baptist's Bones Found?

The fella gets around pretty good for a Bible caricature.

 

[Twilight Hue]

This is in quizzes....what's the punch line?

Boney M.

 

[ChristineM]

It's written that John was beheadded. What happened to it?

Check out my avatar ;-)