Which saint is this?

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I was in the local Greek-Melkite Catholic church today. Now there was a beautiful icon of a saint, and I can’t figure it out. Maybe I’m just being ignorant.

The picture is in what looks like the desert. There was a figure of somebody wearing what looked like a crown(maybe I’m wrong), holding somebody else’s head. In the background somebody is shown being beheaded.

It’s on the tip of the tongue, and I vaguely remember who it is. I simply cannot place a name on it. Anybody know?
 
The beheading and desert remind me of St. John the Baptist, who also happens to be a prominent saint in the Melkite tradition, but I’m not sure about the crown…
 
passus said:
The beheading and desert remind me of St. John the Baptist, who also happens to be a prominent saint in the Melkite tradition, but I’m not sure about the crown…
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I think it was two separate martyrs, because one was holding the head of the other.

I thought of St.John the Baptist right away as well. The crown on the other guy is what caught me. And maybe I’m wrong about that, and it wasn’t even a crown. And not to add to the confusion, but could you think of any pair of martyrs who were beheaded because they refused to convert to Islam? I think they were brothers. I might be mixing a bunch of things up though, so only use this as possible clues.

Thanks.
 
My first thought was St. John the Baptist. He’s often depicted with “spiky” hair on top. Where was the icon positioned? That might provide a clue.
 
Sounds like the beheading of St. John the Forerunner. The crowned person would be the King who ordered it, Herod, or his wife, Salome, for whose pleasure it was done, if no halo was on the crowned head.
 
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My first thought was St. John the Baptist. He’s often depicted with “spiky” hair on top. Where was the icon positioned? That might provide a clue.
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It was actually not on the ikonostasis. It was on the right wall, next to another icon of St.Ignatius of Antioch. I think somebody may be correct that it was King Herod holding his head. Maybe it was St.John the Baptist.
 
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