Salome and the Apparition of the Baptist's Head (1876) by Gustave Moreau - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the Synoptic Gospels, Herod, who was tetrarch, or sub-king, of Galilee under the Roman Empire, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife (Phasaelis, daughter of King Aretas of Nabataea) and unlawfully taking...