John the Baptist Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Orders and societies=== A number of [[religious orders]] who include or have included in their name a mention of John the Baptist have been called [[Baptistines (disambiguation)|Baptistines]]. John the Baptist is the name-giving patron of the [[Knights Hospitaller]], or Knights of Saint John.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carr |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tH4TDgAAQBAJ&dq=John+the+Baptist+is+the+name-giving+patron+of+the+Knights+Hospitaller&pg=PT6 |title=The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John |date=2016-10-30 |publisher=Casemate Publishers |isbn=978-1-4738-5890-9 |language=en |access-date=19 December 2022 |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405002934/https://books.google.com/books?id=tH4TDgAAQBAJ&dq=John+the+Baptist+is+the+name-giving+patron+of+the+Knights+Hospitaller&pg=PT6 |url-status=live }}</ref> Along with [[John the Evangelist]], John the Baptist is claimed as a patron saint by the fraternal society of [[Freemasonry|Freemasons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ward.html|title=Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry|publisher=Freemasons-freemasonry.com|access-date=14 February 2010|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019092419/http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ward.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page