John the Apostle

==Liturgical commemoration==
The [[feast day]] of Saint John in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], which calls him "Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist", and in the [[Anglican Communion]] and Lutheran Calendars, which call him "Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist", is on 27 December.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/calendar/|title=The Calendar|date=16 October 2013|access-date=27 December 2015|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022221459/http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/calendar/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the [[Tridentine calendar]] he was commemorated also on each of the following days up to and including 3 January, the [[Octave (liturgy)|Octave]] of the 27 December feast. This Octave was abolished by [[Pope Pius XII]] in 1955.<ref>General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII</ref> The [[liturgical color]] is White. John, [[Apostles in the New Testament|Apostle]] and [[Four Evangelists|Evangelist]] is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Festival (Anglicanism)|Festival]] on 27 December.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=27 March 2021|website=The Church of England}}</ref> In Roman Catholic tradition he considered patron of Turkey, [[Asia Minor]] and [[Turkish people]].<ref name="M. Limberis 2011 164">{{cite book|title=Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs|first=Vasiliki |last=M. Limberis|year=2011| isbn=9780190208684| page =164|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of "Saint John Before the Latin Gate" on 6 May, celebrating a tradition recounted by Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed. A church ([[San Giovanni a Porta Latina]]) dedicated to him was built near the [[Porta Latina|Latin gate]] of Rome, the traditional site of this event.<ref>''Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts'' by Dom. Gaspar LeFebvre, O.S.B., Saint Paul, Minnesota: The E.M. Lohmann Co., 1952, pp.1325–1326</ref>

The [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and those [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] which follow the [[Byzantine Rite]] commemorate the "Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian" on 26 September.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian |url=https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/09/26/102731-repose-of-the-holy-apostle-and-evangelist-john-the-theologian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303060237/https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/09/26/102731-repose-of-the-holy-apostle-and-evangelist-john-the-theologian |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=www.oca.org}}</ref> On 8 May they celebrate the "[[Feast day|Feast]] of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian", on which date Christians used to draw forth from his grave fine ashes which were believed to be effective for healing the sick.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian |url=https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/05/08/101327-apostle-and-evangelist-john-the-theologian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608200128/https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/05/08/101327-apostle-and-evangelist-john-the-theologian |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=www.oca.org}}</ref> John is also commemorated on 30 June as a member of the twelve apostles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Twelve Apostles |url=https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/06/30/101711-synaxis-of-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-twelve-apostles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418222037/https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/06/30/101711-synaxis-of-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-twelve-apostles |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=www.oca.org}}</ref> There is also a commemoration of the [[synaxis]] of the Apostle John at Diaconissa on 15 February.<ref>{{Cite web |title=February 15, 2020. + Orthodox Calendar |url=https://orthochristian.com/calendar/20200215.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118173734/https://orthochristian.com/calendar/20200215.html |archive-date=January 18, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=orthochristian.com}}</ref>