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Prester John and his kingdom feature in two works by Umberto Eco. The first is the 2000 novel Baudolino, in which the titular protagonist enlists his friends to write the Letter of Prester John for his adoptive father Frederick Barbarossa, but it is stolen before they can send it out.
First US edition 1911 cover of Adventure magazine in which the story was serialised in the US. Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan.It tells the story of the young Scotsman David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a native uprising under the charismatic black minister John Laputa is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John.
John of Ávila (Spanish: Juan de Ávila; 6 January 1499 [1] – 10 May 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. He is called the "Apostle of Andalusia", for his extensive ministry in that region.
Seán na Sagart (John of the Priests in Irish) (c. 1690 – 1726) was a priest hunter during Penal Times in Ireland. Born John O'Mullowny [ 1 ] in Derrew , near Ballyheane , County Mayo , he began his career as a horse thief but was arrested and sentenced to death in Castlebar in his youth.
Saint John Vianney is said to have lived his life according to the heart of Christ and united his heart to Christ’s." [ 29 ] By the end of the tour, "the relic [had] travelled almost 36,000 miles [58,000 km] — almost one and a half times the circumference of the Earth — and was available for over 1,200 hours of public veneration."
John the Evangelist [a] (c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John.Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, [2] although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the same individual.
John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement , Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.
John the Presbyter was an obscure figure of the early Church who is either distinguished from or identified with the Apostle John and/or John of Patmos. He appears in fragments from the church father Papias of Hierapolis as one of the author's sources and is first unequivocally distinguished from the Apostle by Eusebius of Caesarea .