Medieval History
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.
The remains ? small fragments of a skull, bones from a jaw and an arm, and a tooth ? were discovered embedded in an altar in the ruins of the ancient monastery, on the island in the Black Sea.
A Greek inscription on the stone casque contains a reference to June 24 ? the date on which John the Baptist is believed to have been born.
"We found the relics of St John the Baptist - exactly what the archaeologists had expected," said Bozhidar Dimitrov, Bulgaria's minister without portfolio and a former director of the country's National History Museum, who was present when the stone urn was opened. "It has been confirmed that these are parts of his skeleton."
Click here to read this article from The Daily Telegraph
See also "Bulgaria, Sozopol in Euphoria over St. John the Baptist Archaeology Find" from the Sofia News Agency
See also "John the Baptist's Bones Discovered?" from Discovery News
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Medieval History
St John the Baptist's bones 'found in Bulgarian monastery'
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.
The remains ? small fragments of a skull, bones from a jaw and an arm, and a tooth ? were discovered embedded in an altar in the ruins of the ancient monastery, on the island in the Black Sea.
A Greek inscription on the stone casque contains a reference to June 24 ? the date on which John the Baptist is believed to have been born.
"We found the relics of St John the Baptist - exactly what the archaeologists had expected," said Bozhidar Dimitrov, Bulgaria's minister without portfolio and a former director of the country's National History Museum, who was present when the stone urn was opened. "It has been confirmed that these are parts of his skeleton."
Click here to read this article from The Daily Telegraph
See also "Bulgaria, Sozopol in Euphoria over St. John the Baptist Archaeology Find" from the Sofia News Agency
See also "John the Baptist's Bones Discovered?" from Discovery News
- Is This The Knucklebone Of John The Baptist?
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. A team from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at...
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The discovery was made near the Saint Nicholas Wonderworker monastery in Sozopol. Photo by dariknews.bg If you thought vampires were simply the stuff of myth and legend - and perhaps the odd teen horror film - think again. Archaeologists in Bulgaria...
- Getty Museum Acquires Rare Late-medieval German Sculpture
The Getty Museum were the successful bidders at auction earlier today for an extraordinary rare sculpture of St. John the Baptist dating from early 16th-century. The Getty, which is based in Los Angeles bought the piece for 313,250 pounds (about $487,000),...
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The annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, RI, November 19-21, 2008 has quite a lot to offer TC wise: John Wei-Ho Wu (Logos Evangelical Seminary) Authenticity of the Distinctively Byzantine Shorter Reading Andrew W. Pitts...
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How was St John the Baptist dressed? This is how Mark's Gospel has it: 'Now John wore clothing of camel?s hair with a leather belt around his waist' (Matthew Mark 1.6) This fifteenth century panel from Yarnton in Oxfordshire is pretty representative...