However the faithful in Amiens are not the only Christians to claim to possess John the Baptist's head. It is the one Christian relic that you might have thought is part of an April Fools joke.

The damsel consulted with her mother, and she dispatched her daughter with haste, to demand that the head of John the Baptist be brought in to her at once on a charger. This strange request startled ...

From the very first scene of John's gospel when Jesus enters the story for the first time, he does so by coming to John the Baptist to be ... Jews are beginning to head off a separate track.

Herodias instructed her to ask for John the Baptist's head. Herodias had already nursed ... has discovered the dance floor mentioned in the Bible. He believes it is in a courtyard unearthed ...

This messenger is John the Baptist, who appeared in the desert of Judaea. John’s role was to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah. He did this through telling people to repent as the ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

This messenger is John the Baptist, who appeared in the desert of Judaea. Baptism was a Jewish ritual – people were totally immersed in water to symbolise cleansing. John’s baptism was a ...

scientists have dug up an exquisite marble box holding what they believe to be the bones of John the Baptist, the man who baptized Jesus. If the date of the bones lines up with the Bible's profile ...

John the Baptist. Credit: Michael A. Rupolo Sr. St. John the Baptist head coach Ryan Dalton and his father, athletic director Ralph Dalton, pose before a CHSAA baseball game against St.