Elizabeth (biblical figure)
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Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah, and maternal aunt of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke and in Islamic tradition. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived and gave birth to John.
Elizabeth (left) visited by Mary in the Visitation, by Philippe de Champaigne
15th century depiction of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, with Elizabeth on the left
Mariotto Albertinelli's imagining of Elizabeth (right), here pictured with Mary
John the Baptist
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John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, Saint John by certain Catholic churches, and Prophet Yahya in Islam. He is sometimes alternatively referred to as John the Baptiser.
Saint John the Baptist, a 1540 painting by Titian
The Preaching of St. John the Baptist by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
Salome is given the severed head of John the Baptist, Onorio Marinari, 1670s
Beheading of St John the Baptist by Massimo Stanzione, 1635