Not sure if you know, but in the catholic religion, there are many feast days commemorating various events in Church history. Now, these are not days where people gather together and have an actual feast, but I’m sure some catholic churches will have mass on these days. Anywho…today’s feast day is the Feast Day of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Aug. 29th). I know…kind of odd thing to be creating into a feast day I suppose. But wait…it gets juicer. Apparently there are two other feast days associated with this feast day:
First and Second Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist (Feb. 24th)
Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist (May 25th)
No joke, apparently John the Baptist’s head has been found, not once, not twice, but thrice (and thus presumably lost three times as well). Anyways, the fragmented head purported to be from John the Baptist is now on display at San Silvestro in Capite in Rome. Islamic tradition claims his head is buried in Damascus, and have erected a shrine to it at the Umayyad Mosque. Apparently, muslims believe that Jesus will return to this location during the second coming.
The whole feast day (and associated feast days) and relics associated with the beheading of John the Baptist seem kinda odd to me, but nevertheless, Wikipedia has all this info on it, so who am I to argue. Well anyways… in case you wondered what today was…
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