Nihil sub sole novum

Klosterkirche of Sankt Johann in Müstair

*The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist*

S. Jean Baptiste (St. John the Baptist), June 24th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy), Etching; second state of two (Lieure) — *Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L’Année*

*Libro del Compendio della vita dei santi*

*Annus Dierum Sanctorum*
*Vox Domini Confringentis cedros.*
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars.
Psalm 28.5
*Vox clamantis.*
A voice of one crying
Luke 3.4
*Non licet tibi habere.*
It is not lawful for thee to have [her].
Matthew 14.4 et al.

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the Saints

La vie des saints

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Little Lives of the Great Saints by John O’Kane Murray.

Sermons for Children’s Masses, According to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti.

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays

Legends of the Blessed Sacrament Gathered from the History of the Church and the Lives of the Saints by Emily Mary Shapcote (a Eucharistic Miracle that happened on the Feast of John the Baptist).

The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts by Richard Challoner.

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Tradition in Action

“St. John the Baptist” by Matthew Russell.

Gospels & Other Ancient Texts

Matthew – Preaching of John and Baptism of Christ, John Sends His Disciples to Christ, Death of John the Baptist

Mark – Preaching of John and Baptism of Christ, Death of John the Baptist

Luke – Nativity and Infancy of John the Baptist, Preaching of John and Baptism of Christ, John Sends His Disciples to Christ

John – Preaching of John, More Preaching of John

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art – Saint John the Baptist (general), Infancy

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon, 2016 Plumb.

The Klosterkirche of Sankt Johann in Müstair, Switzerland. One of the most important churches art historically due to the survival of its extensive fresco cycle, including the earliest surviving monumental Last Judgment, but also one of the least known. Here is a scholarly article on the church.

A second cycle, also little known, was painted centuries later by Masolino in the baptistery in the Lombard town of Castiglione Olona, but its Nativity is lost.

14C Birth of Saint John the Baptist

15C Altar of Saint John by Rogier van der Weyden

16C Birth of John the Baptist

17C Birth of Saint John the Baptist

18C Nativity of Saint John the Baptist