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Beheading of Saint John the Forerunner (Feast Day - August 29)

Verses

A murderous hand with a sword cuts off the head

Of him who placed his hand on the Lord’s head.

On the twenty-ninth the Forerunner was decapitated at the neck with a sword.

 

Synaxarion of the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet John the Forerunner

  

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist: Epistle and Gospel Reading

 

On the Beheading of John the Baptist and on Herodias (St. John Chrysostom)

  

Herod is Forever Reproved by the Words of John the Baptist (St. John Chrysostom)

  

The Death of John the Baptist as a Crown (St. John Chrysostom)

 

Homily on the Beheading of the Honorable Forerunner (St. Andrew of Crete) 

 

Encomium on the Beheading of the Honorable Forerunner (St. Theodore the Studite)

   

On the Martyrdom of John the Baptist (Venerable Bede)

   

The Forerunner of the Lord, John the Baptist (Venerable Bede)

 

The Last Dance of Salome (Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos)

 

Homily on Christ's Highly Revered Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (St. Gregory Palamas)

 

Homily on the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Reflection on the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (St. Theophan the Recluse)

 

Homily One on the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Two on the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (St. Luke of Simferopol)

  

The Judgement of Herod, Herodius and Salome (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

 

The Beheading of John the Prophet and Forerunner (St. Justin Popovich)

 

The Forgotten Forerunner (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Saint John the Forerunner as a Monk and Social Worker (Archimandrite George Kapsanis)

Saint John the Baptist as a Liturgical Forerunner (Metr. Jeremiah of Gortynos)
 

The Preaching of Saint John the Forerunner (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

The Attributes of the Honorable Forerunner and Baptist John (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Homily Nine on the Great Litany of the Divine Liturgy - The Honorable Forerunner (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)  

   

Orthodox Customs to Honor the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner

 

The Feast of the Beheading of St. John in Giona, Crete

 

Josephus on the Beheading of John the Baptist
 

Machaerus: Beyond the Beheading of John the Baptist

 

"Cephalophore" and "Self-Cephalophore" Saints
 

Silent Film: "Salome" (1910)

  

The Skull (Head) of St. John the Baptist

  

The First and Second Finding of the Honorable Head of John the Forerunner

 

1st and 2nd Finding of the Head of John the Baptist

  

Sozomen's Account of the Discovery of the Head of Saint John the Forerunner

  

Third Finding of the Honorable Head of Saint John the Baptist and Forerunner 

 

The Location Where the Head of St. John the Baptist Was Found the Third Time

 

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