Icon St. John the Baptist

Icon of Saint John the Baptist with handmade silkscreen print on a polished gold background in various dimensions.

All images of the Orthodox calendar are made in any size.

Six days of the year are dedicated to St. John the Baptist:

7 January – Convocation of the Prophet John the Baptist, the oldest feast
24 February – 1st & 2nd finding of his Holy Head
25 May – 3rd finding of his Holy Head
24 June – Birthday of the Holy Baptist and Baptist John (celebrated with his parents, Zechariah and Elizabeth), set after the fixing of Christmas (4th century).[12] August 29 – Deposition of his Holy Head, similarly set in the 4th century, and
September 23 – His arrest by his mother, St. Elizabeth.

According to Luke the Evangelist, John was the son of the priest Zechariah and Elizabeth, who was a relative of the Virgin Mary.

Concerning his conception and birth, which took place 6 months before the birth of Jesus Christ, the same Evangelist recounts miraculous events. Moreover, at that time all the people went to consult John, and, baptizing them, they themselves confessed their sins.

As for the main and most miraculous event, it was his birth. Although Elizabeth was considered barren, the archangel Gabriel proclaimed to Zechariah that eventually his wife would bear a boy and give him the name John[ (Luke 1:13).

John the Baptist (John the Baptist), also called John the Baptist, is a saint and prophet of Christianity.

John now appears at the age of 30 “by divine command”, “in the wilderness of Judea”. But in speaking of the Jordan River it is inferred that he is referring to the southern part of the country, the Jordanian region, preaching: “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is come,” “baptizing them that come unto him” (Matt. 3:2).

Parallel to his sermons was his appearance, his ascetic life and his diet. He wore a woollen garment “of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his loins”, and his diet was wild honey and locusts. It seems that he did not always stay in the same place but went “all around the Jordan preaching baptism of repentance”.

Both this appearance and John’s ascetic life alongside his preaching and baptisms of repentance were bound to provoke a crowd of listeners and many admirers from all over Palestine who rushed to hear him, including soldiers and Sadducees and Pharisees, all of whom he then baptized in the Jordan River.

So it was not long before this action of his caused the attention of the Great Congress of the Jews, which sent a delegation to check what was happening and to learn about it, from which it received in response a relevant prophetic saying of the Prophet Isaiah “a voice crying in the wilderness, you shall make straight the way of the Lord”. (John 1,23)

Jesus Christ met him there and asked him to baptize him. At first he refused, saying that he was not worthy to baptize the Messiah, but the Messiah must baptize him[5] (Mt 3:14), but Christ insisted, and so St. John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan River.

The words of the Baptist disturbed the Pharisees as well as the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, Herod Antipas, when he tested him for his illicit cohabitation with the wife of Herod Philip’s living brother, Herodias, who imprisoned him.

At one of his birthday celebrations, Herod asked his daughter Salome to dance for him and promised her by oath to give her whatever she asked. Herodias, her mother, who hated John, then found the opportunity she was looking for where she then urged her daughter to ask for the head of the prophet John in a pinacea (plate).

So the beheading followed. After this martyrdom of John, his disciples came and “bore his corpse and commemorated it.”

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