and order his head delivered on a silver platter. "The Saints" follows the lives and legacies of saints like John the Baptist, who serve as examples of tenacity, courage and righteousness in the ...

did away with John the Baptist. Scripture chronicles that the prophet was murdered on the dance floor after Salome's performance, and that King Herod was handed his head on a platter ...

Herod Antipas was reluctant to grant the request, according to the Bible, but he ultimately decided to fulfill it and had John the Baptist's head brought to Salome on a platter. A courtyard ...

(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Both Salome’s dance, often referred to as the Dance of the Seven Veils, and the moment when she was presented with John the Baptist’s head on a platter have ...

But is there any evidence? Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian ...

The beheading of John the Baptist has inspired lots of artistic ... who encourages her to ask for John’s head on a platter. The executioner comes for John, and the head is brought back into ...

Salome, consulting her mother, asked for the head of John the Baptist, who was already in Herod’s prison, on a platter. In the cycle of the life of Christ, there is no more important figure than ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

Salome, now the king’s stepdaughter, requested John the Baptist’s head on a platter for her mother, who was furious he spoke out against her marriage. In some later artistic depictions of the ...