Ivan, John, Juan, Jan, Jean, Vano, Sean, Giovanni are all variants of the most common name in the world - Johannan, for this was the name of the one called the last biblical prophet, the forerunner of the Messiah, the most venerated saint after the Virgin Mary for Christians.
With this name is connected one of the main symbols of Christianity - the sacrament of baptism.
Our excursion is devoted to the places of earthly life of John the Baptist.
We will go to the old village of priests to the place of Christmas John.
Then we will climb high into the mountains, where in the silence of centuries-old pines and olives passed his childhood years.
At the Holy Spring of the Hermit we shall see the first font of John with the spring water of the beating of the rock.
Among the green hills on the slope of the mountain is a mysterious grotto, where in seclusion prepared for the prophetic service of the Precursor. Elizabeth, the mothers of John.
We will visit the chapel of the burial and the miraculous finding of the head of John, in which is kept the icon with a particle of his relics.
After we descend the Judean desert to the Jordan River.
Here were his fiery sermons and calls for repentance.
The main event in his destiny took place here - the baptism of Jesus and the proclamation of the Messiah.