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The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John and the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist are titles given to two very similar pictures of the Holy Family by the Italian Renaissance painter Bronzino. The first version (German: Hl. Familie mit Hl.
The Holy Family and the Family of Saint John the Baptist; Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Correggio, Mantua) Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Correggio, Pavia) Holy Family with the Family of St John the Baptist; The Holy Kinship (Geertgen tot Sint Jans)
Elizabeth, however, insisted that his name was to be John; so the family then questioned her husband. As soon as Zechariah had written on a writing table: "His name is John", he regained the power of speech, and blessed "the Lord God of Israel" with a prophecy known as the Benedictus or "Song of Zechariah" (Luke 1:57–79).
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
The choice of theme is linked to the chapel's dedication to John the Baptist. [1] On the left are Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and on the right are the infant John the Baptist with his parents Saint Elizabeth and Saint Zacharias. Zacharias holds a strange ampulla, possibly a censor.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Zechariah writing, "His name is John". Pontormo, on a desco da parto, c. 1526. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ, and the circumstances of his birth, as recorded in the New Testament, are miraculous. John's pivotal place in the gospel ...