Salome and Saint John. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness (ἐγὼ φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ)
The story of the beheading of St. John the Baptist is recounted in the holy book of Christians. Matthew 14 and Mark 6 say that John was the victim of a plot by Herodias, wife of King Herod and former consort of his deceased brother Philip. What is striking is…