(Above) Herodias, Salome and the decapitated St. John the Baptist as depicted in the leading baptistery of Catholic New York located in St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Recent commentators have drawn attention to the contrast between Fiducia Supplicans and the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist. But Gustave Flaubert in his 1877 novella Herodias had aready […]