Icon of Saint John the Baptist with handmade silkscreen on a polished gold background in various dimensions.
All icons of the Orthodox holiday are made in any size.
Six days of the year are dedicated to Agios Ioannis Prodromos:
January 7 – Synaxis of the Prophet Prodromos and John the Baptist, the oldest holiday
February 24 – 1st & 2nd finding of his Honorable Head
May 25 – 3rd finding of his Honest Head
June 24 – Birthday of the Holy Forerunner and Baptist John (celebrated with his parents, Zacharias and Elizabeth), was set after the definition of Christmas (4th century).[12] August 29 – Sharpening of his Honorable Head, similarly determined in the 4th century, and
September 23 Arrest by his mother, St. Elizabeth.
According to the Evangelist Luke, John was the son of the priest Zacharias and Elizabeth who was a relative of the Virgin.
Concerning his conception and birth, which took place 6 months before the birth of Jesus Christ, the same Evangelist narrates miraculous events. Moreover, at that time all the people went to consult John, and, by baptizing them, they themselves confessed their sins.
As for the main and most wonderful event, it was his birth. Although Elizabeth was considered barren, the archangel Gabriel told Zacharias that eventually his wife would give birth to 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 a prophet of Christianity.
John now appears at the age of 30 “by divine command”, “in the wilderness of Judea”. But when he speaks of the Jordan River, he concludes that he is referring to the southern part of the country, the peripheral region, declaring, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” “baptizing those who come to it” (Matt. 3: 2).
Along with his sermons, was his appearance as well as his ascetic life and diet. He wore a woolen garment “of camel hair and a leather belt around his waist”, while his diet was wild honey and locusts. It seems that he did not stay in the same place all the time, but that he “preached the baptism of repentance all over the Jordan.”
Both this appearance and the ascetic life of John, in parallel with his sermons and baptisms of repentance, were to provoke a large number of listeners and many of his admirers from all over Palestine who rushed to hear him, including soldiers and Sadducees. and the Pharisees, all of whom he later baptized in the Jordan River.
So it was not long before this action attracted the attention of the Great Congress of the Jews who 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 roaring in the wilderness , you are responsible for the way of the Lord “. (John 1:23)
There Jesus Christ met him and asked him to baptize him. He initially refused, saying that he was not worthy to baptize the Messiah, but that the Messiah should baptize him [5] (Matt. 3:14), but Christ insisted, and so St. John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ in the water. of the Jordan River.
The words of the Forerunner annoyed the Pharisees as well as the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea Herod Antipas, when he checked him for his illegal cohabitation with the wife of Herod Philip’s living brother, Herodias, who imprisoned him.
At a birthday party, Herod asked Salome’s daughter to dance with him and promised 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 plate.
This is how the beheading followed. After this martyrdom of John, his disciples came “were his corpse and laid it in a memorial”.
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