SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE (SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SAINT JOHN THE APOSTLE)

In reality, three different persons. In tradition, one and the same disciple of Jesus Christ, the best loved one, the author of the Gospel According to John, a witness of all the events depicted in the Gospel, from Baptism till the Ascension of Christ, an author of three epistles and the Revelation (Apocalypse).

At first he was a disciple of Saint John the Baptist and a witness of the Baptism of Christ. He was present at the resurrection of the daughter of Yair, at the Transfiguration of Christ, in the Garden of Gethsemane, during the Last Supper he "was leaning on Jesus' bosom". He was at Golgotha during the Crucifixion and Jesus asked him to take care of his Mother.

Under the Emperor Domitian, he was tortured for preaching and thrown into a cauldron with boiling oil but got out of it safe and sound. Then John was sent to a small island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea where he had a vision and wrote Apocalypse (around the year 85).

According to the Golden Legend, when John was dying, Christ came to see him and crowned him with a golden crown.

Attributes: eagle, pen and scroll, cup with a snake.