and order his head delivered on a silver platter. "The Saints" follows the lives and legacies of saints like John the Baptist, who serve as examples of tenacity, courage and righteousness in the ...

Saintly items also encouraged a sort of spiritual tourism, drawing religious pilgrims ... that claim to have at least part of John the Baptist’s head. Parts of a hand and arm have been reported ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

The beheading of John the Baptist has inspired lots of artistic ... It’s her mother, Herodias, who encourages her to ask for John’s head on a platter. The executioner comes for John, and ...