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 first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, an
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
John the Baptist in Islam
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Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā, identified Biblically as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam a prophet of God who was sent to guide the Children of Israel. He was the maternal cousin of Isa and believed by
Baby Yahya being held by two angels, late 16th century illustration from Ottoman manuscript
Shrine of Yahya in Sebastia, Palestine
Shrine purportedly housing the head of Yahya in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria
Like Yahya, Muhammad's grandson Al-Husain was beheaded, and his head was temporarily kept here, in what is now the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus