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John the Baptist

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    1st century CE / Judea, Jordan River

    In the icon on our piece, John the Baptist is a melanated prophet, brown-skinned at the Jordan.

    On our Baptism piece he stands on the left bank in a dark cloak, haloed, reaching over Christ in the water. A prophet of the wilderness who called people to the Jordan to be washed clean. He spoke against a king, Herod Antipas, and lost his head for it. The icon keeps his face brown.

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