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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

The Death of John the Baptist as a Crown

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

On the Martyrdom of John the Baptist (Venerable Bede)

The Last Dance of Salome

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

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)

 

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)

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)  

Saint John the Baptist as a Liturgical Forerunner

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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