St. John’s Day

When:
December 27, 2018 all-day
2018-12-27T00:00:00-05:00
2018-12-28T00:00:00-05:00

Excerpt from Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry:
“One of the Patron Saints of Freemasonry, Saint John the Evangelist’s festival is celebrated on the 27th of December. His constant admonition, in his Epistles, to the cultivation of brotherly love, and the mystical nature of his Apocalyptic visions, have been, perhaps, the principal reasons for the veneration paid to him by the Craft. Notwithstanding a well-known tradition, all documentary evidence shows that the connection of the name of the Evangelist with the Masonic Order is to be dated long after the sixteenth century, before which time Saint John the Baptist was exclusively the patron saint of Freemasonry. The two are, however, now always united.”