John the Apostle of John. For one, the author of Revelation identifies himself as “John” several times, but the author of the Gospel of John never identifies himself directly. Some Catholic scholars state that “vocabulary, grammar, and style make it doubtful that the book could have been put into its present form by the same person(s) responsible for the fourth gospel.” John the Apostle was the son of Zebedee and the younger brother of James, son of Zebedee (James the Greater). According to Church tradition, their mother was Salome. Zebedee and his sons fished in the Sea of Galilee. The brothers were firstly
Rebecca Salome Foster Rebecca Salome Foster Rebecca Salome Elliott Foster (October 24, 1848 - February 22, 1902) was a missionary/prison relief worker known as the "Tombs Angel" because she attended to criminals incarcerated at The New York Halls of Justice and House of Detention (otherwise known as "The Tombs"). Rebecca Salome Elliott was born October 24, 1848, in Alabama, the daughter of John Howard Elliott and Margaret Adele Blue. She married Union Civil War General John Armstrong Foster on February 28th, 1865. US President Abraham Lincoln attended their wedding since Foster was a member of the presidential cabinet. The Fosters had four children: