I recently posted on the feast of the Decollation of St John the Baptist, and I included a series of links to depictions of his martyrdom. C...

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...

There are many images of the death of St John the Baptist - some of which I have posted in previous years. From his photo-archive Gordon Pl...

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...

Following on from John Dillon's post which I republished in my post The First and Second Findings of the Head of St John the Baptist ...

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...

Today is the feast of the Decollation or Beheading of St John the Baptist. There is an online history of the feast here . In the later mid...

Today is the feast of the Beheading or Decollation of St John the Baptist.  This has attracted artists over the centuries and I post t...

Today, February 24th, is the feast day, in Orthodox and other Eastern-rite churches, of the First and Second Finding of the Head of St. J...

As someone with a particular interest in the later middle ages I appreciate very much the northern gothic style of the paintings of the peri...