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Why is the Nativity of John the Baptist Celebrated?

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The feast celebrating St. John the Baptist’s birth is normally on June 24. St John the Baptist Day, also known as Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, is a holiday celebrated as the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec and by French Canadians across Canada and the United States.

The General Roman Calendar lists the celebration of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on June 24. It is gravity, the most elevated liturgical rank a day can have.

Ordinarily, this would imply that the feast would continuously be celebrated on June 24, regardless of whether it fell on a Sunday.

Notwithstanding, this year (2022), it falls around the same time as the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is celebrated on the Friday following Trinity Sunday and falls on an alternate date every year.

As per the General Norms of the Liturgical Year, when two solemnities are going after that very day, feasts of Our Lord are given precedence.

The Feast of John the Baptist is a Christian feast day that commemorates the birth of John the Baptist, who told the approaching Messiah. John the Baptist realized he had been destined to be ‘separate for God’ so he totally dedicated his life to empowering individuals to encourage their transgressions and plan for the approaching of the Messiah.

Individuals flocked to be baptized through water by him, he had a voice of authority and he used to advise individuals to get some distance from wrongdoing and be baptized as a sign of contrition. At some point, Jesus came to the River Jordan to be baptized by John. John, in any case, felt unfit for such a task, yet at long last concurred and purified through baptized Jesus.

Jesus was baptized and set a guide to his supporters to participate in this ritual.

St. John’s Day History

Typically, a holy person’s feast day is celebrated on the day that the saint died. St. John alongside the Virgin Mary is the main two saints whose birthday events are celebrated.

St. John’s death (August 29th) is likewise set apart by Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.

The feast day of Saint John the Baptist was a famous feast day in numerous European countries. One justification behind this was that its timing corresponded pleasantly with a lot of older pagan holidays that celebrated the late summer solstice.

It is as yet celebrated as a strict feast day in a few countries, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and has reverberations in different holidays like the Swiss National Day – a focal theme in the celebrations is the lighting of huge fires.

The Feast of St John the Baptist is celebrated to recollect his obligation to God and to remind Christians to atone for their sins and understand the significance of his prophet.

St. John the Baptist is the patron Saint of Turin.

His feast day is likewise celebrated in Quebec as the Fete Nationale du Quebec.

Raeesa Sayyad

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