Today is the feast of the Decollation of St John the Baptist.  My previous posts for this feast can be seen at  A German Reliquary of St Joh...

John Dillon posted on the Medieval Religion discussion group about the Orthodox feast of the First and Second Finding of the Head of St Joh...

Today is the feast of the Decollation or Beheading of St John the Baptist. Here is a late medieval depiction of the event in a carving fr...

Traditionally today is the feast of St Matthias the Apostle, which was transferred in the 1970 novus ordo to May 14th. However as John D...

A post on the Medieval Religion discussion group pointed me to an article in last weekend's Observer about the use in this country at...

Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents' and I am again using a selection of images posted by John Dillon on the Medieval...

Last year on this day I posted in St John the Evangelist   about images of him, and this year, thanks to a post by John Dillon on the Medie...

Writing about Amiens cathedral earlier reminded me that I had on file these pictures of the west front as it can be seen at night, when an...

Today is the feast of St Fermin (also spelt Firmin). There is an informative account of his life and cult here  with expandable illustrati...