John was the only Apostle not to die a martyr — it’s ... a kind of vaporous quality to sacred figures, and a blank background (at best supplemented by some local landscape from the Spanish ...

he is called the “Protoklete” or “First-Called” apostle. Pope Benedict commented: “He was truly a man of faith and hope; and one day he heard John the Baptist proclaiming Jesus as ‘the ...

Plenty of churches contain relics of saints, but not many of those relics were found in excavations from sixth-century churches. Archaeologists at a medieval fortress site in Burgas, Bulgaria ...