John St Apostle

John, St., Apostle and Evangelist, the son of Zebedee and Salome, was following his father's occupation as a fisherman, when the fame of John the Baptist attracted him to Bethany, where he met Jesus. He became known as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." After the Resurrection he remained in Jerusalem, and was there at the time of Paul's second visit. Tradition asserts that he was settled at Ephesus up to the time of Trajan, and having been immersed with impunity in boiling oil was banished to Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse, and died at a very great age from natural causes.