An ancient miraculous icon of St. John the Baptist was stolen from the cliff monastery of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Lyadova, Ukraine, 225 miles southwest of Kiev.

A later monastery on the island was dedicated to John the Baptist; indirect evidence, according to excavation leader Kazimir Popkonstantinov, that the relics under the altar were those of the ...

The remains of St John the Baptist have been found in an ancient reliquary in a 5th century monastery on Sveti Ivan Island in Bulgaria, archaeologists have claimed.

New dating evidence supports claims that bones found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist, who is described in the Bible as a leading prophet and relative of Jesus Christ ...

When Bulgarian archeologists announced in 2010 that they had found the bones of John the Baptist, Tom Higham was skeptical.

Msgr. John Meier, a New Testament professor at Notre Dame, said the “identification of Ain Karim with John the Baptist is a patristic, not a New Testament, tradition.” ...

On 31st Street next to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden is the Capuchin Monastery of the Church of St. John, a player in the station's redevelopment plans ...

Thus, we read in this citation that after 850, part of the head of St. John the Baptist came to be located in the Podromos Monastery in Petra, and the other part in the Forerunner Monastery of the ...

Bones found in an early Christian monastery in Bulgaria could belong to John the Baptist, though proof remains elusive.

The Church of the Decapitation of John the Baptist was created between 1671 and 1687 with support from local parishioners and donors from Kazan.

Redemptorist Father John Hanna in the library of Clonard Monastery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which hosted the peace talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. (Credit: Claire Giangravè ...