John the Baptist of John arrested, executed, and buried in a tomb as a conscious foreshadowing of the fate of Jesus. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'" John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, San Juan the former largest church in the province. The first cathedral was built by the Society of Jesus in 1712. In 1944, an earthquake struck the province of St John. The Cathedral was one of many buildings damaged. A new cathedral was completed in the late 1970s St. John the Baptist Cathedral, San Juan The St. John the Baptist Cathedral () also called San Juan Cathedral It is the mother church of the city of San Juan, in the South American country of Argentina, which was dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is currently one of the most modern cathedrals