Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist is one of the Saints John revered by the Freemasons. 

His Feast Day is 24 June of each year which is now near the date of the Summer Solstice or near the longest day of the year. In the past the Summer Solstice may have been on this day, like Christmas was likely on the Winter Solstice.  

Christians, like the Pagans and Sun Worshipers, have honored this day with a name.

Saint John the Baptist was very close to the Qumran Community and as such he probably should not be considered to have been a Christian. (See "The Hiram Key" page 57)

Saint John the Baptist is one of the Patron Saints of Freemasonry.  Saint John the Evangelist is the other Patron Saints of Freemasonry.  Until the sixteenth century Saint John the Baptist was the only Patron Saint of Freemasonry.

The Knight Hospitaller dedicated their Order to him. 

John the Baptist was beheaded at the request of Salome so that his head could be given on a platter to her mother.  It seems rather unlikely that a young lady dancing for the King would ask for the severed head of a man when she was offered up to half of his kingdom.  I have never met a young lady that stupid.  Perhaps this story is simply another so-called parable, or perhaps is just a lie created for some political or religious reason. The King must have been real fond of young girls to have made such an offer.  Most likely no King has ever been that stupid unless he was thinking with the wrong head.

See "The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry" by Mackey page 775 for more information.

John the Baptist is said to have represented the Moon and is said to have had as many disciples as the moon has days. This is said to have included 29 men and 1 woman.  Since, according to Christianity and the Holy Bible, a woman is worth only half as much as a man, his disciples numbered 29 and a half people of about the same number of days as a month. (See MPF_0030) (Islam also considers the Worth of a Woman to be a fraction of that of a man.