Editing John the Baptist (section)

===Right hand relics===
According to the Christian Arab [[Ibn Butlan]], the [[church of Cassian]] in Antioch held the right arm of John the Baptist until it was smuggled to [[Chalcedon]] and later to Constantinople.<ref name="GiorgiEger">{{cite book |last1=Giorgi |first1=Andrea U. De |last2=Eger |first2=A. Asa |title=Antioch: A History |date=30 May 2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-54041-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRgoEAAAQBAJ|page=251 |access-date=8 February 2024 |language=en}}</ref> An [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] [[Cetinje Monastery|monastery]] in [[Cetinje Monastery|Cetinje]], [[Montenegro]], and the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Cathedral of [[Siena]], in [[Italy]], both claim to have John the Baptist's right arm and hand, with which he baptised Jesus.<ref name="finger">{{Cite web |last=Hecker |first=Francesca |title=The Holy Finger at the Nelson-Atkins is an unusual piece of biblical history |url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/special_section/tourism/kansas_city/the-holy-finger-at-the-nelson-atkins-is-an-unusual-piece-of-biblical-history/article_ebcf19d6-7b5b-11ea-98a9-d727ed4f4fe1.html |access-date=14 August 2021 |website=Columbia Missourian |date=21 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927061625/https://www.columbiamissourian.com/special_section/tourism/kansas_city/the-holy-finger-at-the-nelson-atkins-is-an-unusual-piece-of-biblical-history/article_ebcf19d6-7b5b-11ea-98a9-d727ed4f4fe1.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="bones">{{cite news |last=Hooper |first=Simon |date=30 August 2010 |title=Are these the bones of John the Baptist? |publisher=Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/12/bulgaria.john.baptist.relics/index.html |access-date=31 August 2011 |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702040705/http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/12/bulgaria.john.baptist.relics/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the Catholic account, in 1464 [[Pope Pius II]] donated what was identified as the right arm and hand of John the Baptist to the Siena Cathedral.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Pula |first=Milena Joksimović |date=2017 |title=Pope Pius II's charter of donation of the arm of St John the Baptist to Siena cathedral |url=http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-1361/2017/0350-13611741095J.pdf |journal=Zograf |volume=41 |pages=95–105 |access-date=2 May 2022 |archive-date=23 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423212146/http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-1361/2017/0350-13611741095J.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The donation charter identifies the relic as "the arm of blessed John the Baptist. And this is the very arm that baptized the Lord." The relic is displayed on the high altar of the [[Siena Cathedral]] annually in June.

[[Topkapı Palace|Topkapi Palace]], in Istanbul, claims to have John's right hand index finger.<ref name="bones" />
[[File:Armenian Chinsurah 2.jpg|thumb|A [[Kolkata]] [[Armenians in India|Armenian]] kisses the hand of St John the Baptist at [[Chinsurah]].]]