John, the younger brother, offered his life in testimony of Jesus’ divinity.īut the martyrdom of the latter Apostle called for a scene worthy of the event. The elder, James the Great, was the first to give his Master this proof of his love. In reply, the Savior spoke of the chalice which He Himself would have to drink, and foretold that these two disciples would also drink of it. John before the Latin Gate One day Salome presented her two sons, James and John, to Jesus, and with a mother’s ambition asked Him to grant them the highest places in his Kingdom. He later founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (Mercedarians) beginning in 1218 devoted to ransoming Christians. After taking part in the Crusades against the Albigensians, he used his inheritance to free Christian prisoners held by the Moors. Peter Nolasco (1182-1258), born in France, but later settled in Barcelona, Spain. John was built near the Latin Gate, the spot referred to by the tradition. John the Apostle was taken to Rome under the Emperor Domitian and plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil by a striking miracle he came out safe and sound from this torture. Jerome, which goes back to the second century, says St. John before the Latin Gate in Rome, Italy.
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