The Remarkable Story of John The Baptist | The Naked Archeologist | Odyssey

John the Baptist and John the Evangelist: the end of the old and the beginning of the new. The Archbasilica of St. John Lateran is named for both of these great saints: the structure itself is a testament to the voice of the Baptist crying out in the wilderness coming to fulfillment in the Word made flesh: “verbum caro factum est,” writes St. John. With the prophetic voice of the Baptist and the truth of the Incarnation, it is fitting that the mother church of the world, the Pope’s cathedral, be

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The Birth of John the Baptist