But what happened to his head? That depends on who you ask, thanks to a robust trade in religious relics during the Middle Ages. The head of John the Baptist illustrated in a stained glass window ...

Higham’s Oxford colleague Georges Kazan, who has traced the tortured history of John the Baptist’s remains, said it was possible that his relics could have ended up under the fourth century ...

OXFORD, England, June 19 (UPI) -- British researchers say new dating evidence supports claims bones found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist. Scientists at Oxford ...

In a separate study, another Oxford researcher Dr Georges Kazan has used historical documents to show that in the latter part of the fourth century, monks had taken relics of John the Baptist out ...

Historical research by Oxford professor Georges Kazan suggests that relics supposedly from John the Baptist were on the move out of Jerusalem by the fourth century. Many of these artifacts were ...

On June 19, the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church celebrated the Feast of St. John the Forerunner (the Baptist) and St.

However the faithful in Amiens are not the only Christians to claim to possess John the Baptist's head. It is the one Christian relic that you might have thought is part of an April Fools joke.

A small piece of bone — on display at a shrine in Morton Grove — is said to have been from John the Baptist. Kazan wrote in 2015: “Many Christians saw relics as earthly repositories of God ...

The bone fragments, which rest in a silver foot-shaped reliquary, are displayed for veneration in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist of the Florentines. St. Mary Magdalene’s relic is venerated ...