Giusto de' Menabuoi
St. John the Evangelist

14th century
Fresco
Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua, Padua

The saint is identified by the verse from his gospel in the open book: in principio erat verbum [et] verbum erat apud deum [et] deus erat verbum, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1).

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Photographed at the basilica by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.