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Street name: Agiou Ioannou
Category: Person
Category in detail: Religious
Description: John the Baptist (John the Baptist), also named as John the Forerunner is a saint and a prophet of Christianity. He was a modern-a peer of Jesus and it considered to have prepared with his teaching the world to receive the Messiah Jesus, hence the designation "Forerunner", whom he baptized. His teaching was harsh, asking from everyone to stop their immorality, and therefore baptizing only those who took such a decision. According to the Gospel of Luke, he openly disapproved of the relationship Herod Antipas, then tetrarch of Galilee, had with Herodias, his brother's wife. This resulted in his imprisonment and the beheading of John
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City: Messini
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