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It is home to the Jordan Brewers amateur baseball team, state champions in 1986, 1994, 2004, and 2019. Brewer Tournament MVPs include Ron Beckman (1986), John Dolan (1994), Trent Bohnsack (2004), and Joe Lucas (2019). Jordan is also home to the Post #3 Jordan Legion Baseball Team, which won the State Tournament four straight years from 2005 to ...
The Church of St. John the Baptist was a historic church building in Virginia, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1924 by a Polish American congregation of Roman Catholics. [ 2 ] In 1980 the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Church of St. John the Baptist (Catholic) for its local significance in ...
St. John Baptist Church may refer to: St. John Baptist Church (Mason City, Iowa), listed on the NRHP in Iowa; St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana), listed on ...
St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet; St John the Baptist Church, Croydon, now officially Croydon Minster; St John the Baptist Church, Pinner; St John the Baptist, Holland Road, Kensington, a Grade I listed building by James Brooks; Merseyside. St John the Baptist's Church, Earlestown; Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool; Norfolk
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 1st 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 Yaḥyā ...
The Head of St John the Baptist, Giovanni Bellini, 1464–68; The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Lieven van Lathem, 1469, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Herod's Feast, Heydon, Norfolk, c. 1470, wall painting in an English parish church; St. John Altarpiece, Hans Memling, 1474–79; Beheading of John the Baptist, Andrea del Verrocchio, 1477–80
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.
The Jordanian side uses the names Al-Maghtas, Bethany beyond the Jordan and Baptism(al) Site, while the western part is known as Qasr al-Yahud.The nearby Greek Orthodox Monastery of St John the Baptist has a castle-like appearance (thus qasr, "castle"), and tradition holds that the Israelites crossed the river at this spot (thus al-Yahud, "of the Jews").