John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, who baptized with water unto, or on the confession of, repentance, in anticipation of, and in preparation for, the appearance in the immediate future of One who would baptize with the Spirit and with fire; his fate is well known, and the motive of it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
John of Salisbusy * John the GoodLinks here from Chalmers
Andrew [1270–1345]
Balsham, Hugh De
Barnes, Joshua
Baronius, Cæsar
Bogan, Zachary
Cabot, Sebastian
Calvi, Lazzaro
Capecio, Scipio
Caracci, Lewis, Augustine, And Hannibal
Cheron, Lewis
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