Great holiday today (video)
Christians celebrate Sunday, May 25, a The third of the Holy Prophet John’s Head of the Baptist
Herod gave the disciples only the body of Saint John the Baptist to bury him, fearing that he could raise if he had been with the body, and the head was buried by Irodiada in his court.
The woman of Huza, the economy of Herod, Ioana, who is mentioned in the gospel of Luke, grieved by the innocent killing of the Holy Prophet John, taken from there, in secret. She put it in a clay vessel and buried in Mount Eleon, where it was the village of Herod.
For a long time, a certain innocence found it while trying to build a small stone church, but feared and buried again, in the Holy Places in Jerusalem, the time of the worshipers to idols was then.
The head of Saint John the Baptist was present here until the time of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Elena, when, through two monks, the honest head came to Emesa, Syria, to a potter. In 453, the Bishop of Emesea, seated in the church of this fortress. This is considered the second finding of the honest head of the baptist.
We recall that during the struggle against the holy icons, the head of Saint John was buried in Comane, from where it was brought to Constantinople, by Saint Ignatius (860), in the time of Emperor Michael. This is the third and the latter finding out of the honest head.
During the crusades, the Latinos took from Constantinople, in 1204, part of Saint John the Baptist and took him to France, placing him in a church in Amiens, where he is still today.
