St. John The Apostle Medal
This St. John The Apostle Medal and Necklace features a pendant with a hand pressed image of St. John the Apostle surrounded by the words ‘St. John The Apostle Pray for Us’.
Sterling Silver St. John The Apostle Medal and Necklace
14KT Gold Filled St. John The Apostle Medal and Necklace
14KT Gold St John The Apostle Medal
St. John the Apostles
St. John, the Evangelist, who is described in the Gospels as “the beloved disciple”, was a Galilean, son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother to St. James the Greater, both of whom were fishermen. The two were called by Jesus to be disciples as they were mending their nets by the Sea of Galilee.
The Beloved Disciple
St. John had the honor of being present with Peter and James at the Transfiguration of Christ, and was permitted to witness His agony in the Garden. He was allowed to rest on Our Savior’s bosom at the Last Supper, and to him Jesus confided the care of His holy Mother as He hung dying on the Cross. St. John was the only one of the Apostles who did not forsake the Savior in the hour of His Passion and Death. It seems that St. John remained for a long time in Jerusalem, but that his later years were spent at Ephesus, whence he founded many churches in Asia Minor.
St. John was the last of the Evangelists to write his Gospel, about sixty three years after the Ascension of Christ; also three Epistles, and the wonderful and mysterious Book of the Apocalypse or Revelation. He was brought to Rome and, according to tradition, was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil by order of Emperor Domitian. Like the Three Children in the fiery furnace of Babylon, he was miraculously preserved unhurt. He was later exiled to the Island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse, but afterwards returned to Ephesus. In his extreme old age he continued to visit the churches of Asia, and St. Jerome relates that when age and weakness grew upon him so that he was no longer able to preach to the people, he would be carried to the assembly of the faithful by his disciples, with great difficulty; and every time said to his flock only these words: “My dear children, love one another”.
St. John died in peace at Ephesus in the third year of Trajan (as seems to be gathered from Eusebius’ history of the Saint) that is, the hundreth of the Christian era, or the sixty-sixth from the crucifixion of Christ, St. John then being about ninety-four years old, according to St. Epiphanus.
St. John the Apostle Rosary
UPC: 617759896435
Brand: Bliss
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