Remains of St. John the Baptist 'found'

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It’s too early to tell right now.
But what a discovery if it’s true! 😃
 
The skull is in San Silvestro in Rome, just saw it this past Easter.
 
I hope they get ‘a-head’ with verifying this find. Ba-doom ching!

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.

Ora pro nobis, sancte Johanne!
 
Dj87 said:
The skull is in San Silvestro in Rome, just saw it this past Easter.
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Well actually, Amiens Cathedral also claims to have St. John’s head. And the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. And the Residenz Museum in Munich, Germany. And Gandzasar Monastery in Armenia (or at least they had them). And the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire also had claims that the first religious settlers of the district brought St. John’s ‘face’ (halig=holy, fax=face) with them. 🤷

I’m still waiting for someone to come up and claim to have St. John’s skull when he was twelve years old. Nah, just joking. 😃
 
His right forearm and hand are (supposedly) in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul; I was there in '71.

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patrick457 said:
I’m still waiting for someone to come up and claim to have St. John’s skull when he was twelve years old. Nah, just joking. 😃
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There was a film years ago that took place in medieval times, and a hawker at a fair was offering, for a small price, to show the fairgoers Jesus’ skull, as a baby. Don’t doubt that he got some takers! 😃
 
DaveBj said:
His right forearm and hand are (supposedly) in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul; I was there in '71.

DaveBj
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Well, at least his arm is said to be in Topkapi Museum. The Serbian Orthodox Cetinje monastery in Montenegro and the Romanian Skete Prodromos in Mount Athos also claim to have (parts of?) John’s right hand. The Armenian Mother Church of Holy Nazareth, Kolkata also makes the claim of possessing a piece of his hand, which is brought once a year at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church at Chinsurah, West Bengal.
 
zdon011 said:
I hope they get ‘a-head’ with verifying this find. Ba-doom ching!

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.

Ora pro nobis, sancte Johanne!
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hahaha!

How exciting if it was him. Said by Jesus to be the best man from woman. I’m really interested in this now!
 
zdon011 said:
I hope they get ‘a-head’ with verifying this find. Ba-doom ching!

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.

Ora pro nobis, sancte Johanne!
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This subject is a bit heady for me…ba da boom…

sorry, its contagious
 
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