Johannites
A mystic sect who follow the tenets of the late Father John of Cronstadt, where they publish an organ, and pursue their propaganda by means of itinerant pamphlet-sellers. They are said to abduct Jewish children, and because of this rumour they have on more than one occasion come under police supervision. They have several times unsuccessfully fixed the date of the Last Judgment. They declared in Father John's life-time that all the powers of heaven had descended into Cronstadt, and were personified in the entourage of Father John. They exhorted all believers to make confession to Father John, who alone could rescue sinners from the depths of hell. The orthodox clergy would not know the Lord, but Father John would gather together in Cronstadt 144,000 of the blessed, and then "leave the earth." Another affirmation of theirs is that all children who are new-born are "little devils," who must be stamped out" immediately after birth. The Johannites urged the people to sell all their possessions and send the proceeds to Father John, or entrust them to the keeping of the pamphlet-sellers. Evidence is forthcoming tending to show that Father John was unaware of the abuse of his name, and on one occasion, in reply to a telegram from Bishop Nikander, of Perm, he strongly repudiated any connection with certain Johannite propagandists in the Perm Government. 66
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John
a familiar name in history. John was the apostle "whom Jesus loved." John the Baptist foretold Christ's coming. There have been twenty-three popes of the name. Although no monarch of the name ranks in the first class, there have been one or more Johns on the thrones of England France, Portugal, and Poland.
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John (Name born by Popes who by Po)
a name born by 23 Popes who by 23 Po Neapolitan reigned in the following order: order: and John I John XIV ...983-984 523-526 ohn XIV succeeded John II oan XV or 533-535 John XV or }985-996 factions John III .560-573 XVI...... XVI.... John IV if Gregory John XVI, (anti- .640-642 ohn XVI, John V. .685-686 pope) ...997 Benedict pope)... John VI John XVII .....1003 .701-705 ohn XVII pretensions John VII 705-707 John XVIII 1003-1009 ohn XVII 1 John VIII were 872-882 John XIX 1024-1033 ohn XIX John IX 896-900 John XX.1042-1046 of Constance ohn XX John X. 914-928 John XXI .1276-1277 oba XXI insignia John XI .931-936 John XXII.1316-1334 On XX John XII soon after 956-964 John XXIII 1410-1415 John XIII ...965-972 1418, he The following only have historical impelled to save histori portance: JOHN I. was a native of Tuscany, and e of Tusca
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John Bull
a collective name, used in a sportive manner in order to designate the English people. It was first employed by Dean Swift.
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John Doe
a name formerly given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ejectment, that of the fictitious defendant being "Richard Roe."
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John Doree
a fish of pumpkin-seed shape, found on the European coasts. It weighs about five pounds, and is esteemed in the market for its delicate flesh. A round golden spot on the middle of each side is the basis of a tradition that this is the fish in which St. Peter found the tribute money. Fishermen say the spots were caused by the pressure of the apostle's thumb and forefinger. Read Matthew xvii: 24-27.
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John Gilpin
a ballad by William Cowper, published in 1785. It is named for its hero. Lady Austen, a friend of Cowper's, told him the story to arouse him from one of his fits of melancholy. The next day he turned it into poetry. John Gilpin found its way into all the periodicals of the day, was read to crowded houses in London, and was repeated with equal success on provincial stages. Perhaps it has given as much pleasure to as many people, young and old, educated and uneducated, as anything of the same length that ever was written. It is worthy of remark that this merry ballad was written by a man who at the time seemed to himself suspended over an abyss--the flame and darkness of hell, and, while it was convulsing audiences with laughter he was in the depths of despair.--Welsh.
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John Hircanus
son of Simon Maccabæus, whom he succeeded as high priest and prince of the Jews 135 b. c.; died after a reign of 29 years, distinguished by his victories and reforms, 106 b. c.
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John of Austria
or DON JOHN, a Spanish soldier; the natural son of the Emperor Charles V.; born in Ratisbon, Bavaria, Feb. 24, 1547. He was brought up in such ignorance of his birth that, till summoned by Philip II., his brother, to Spain to whom Charles had revealed the fact on his death bed-and there acknowledged as the emperor's son, he had been in total darkness as to who his parents were. His first most illustrious triumph was a victory over the Turkish galleys in the Gulf of Lepanto, in which the Ottomans lost 30,000 men; he next invaded Tunis, and in 1576 was sent by Philip as governor of the Low Countries, then in open revolt, under command of the Prince of Orange and the Archduke Matthias; here, in a succession of splendid victories, he so reduced his antagonists, that the country must soon have submitted and returned to its allegiance, had he not been, unfortunately for the duration of the Spanish rule, suddenly carried off by poison, near Namur, Belgium, Oct. 1, 1578.
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John of Gaunt
DUKE OF LAN- CASTER, 3rd son of Edward III.; born married Blanche, heiress of the duchy of. Lancaster, and himself was created duke in 1362. Three years after her death he married in 1372 Constance, and assumed the title of King of Castile, though the country and crown were seized and held by Henry of Trastamare. The military expeditions which John organized against his rival all proved un- Successful. Toward the close of his aged father's reign John gradually became the most influential personage in the realm. The young King Richard contrived to send him away on an expedition for the recovery of his crown in Spain. On this occasion John concluded a definite peace with Henry of Trastamare, in virtue of which John's daughter Catharine should succeed as queen of Castile. On his return to England after three years' absence he was able to reconcile the young king to his (John's) brother Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. After this Richard II. seems to have reposed more confidence in John, for he made him Duke of Aquitaine and intrusted him with several embassies to France. But John of Gaunt gradually ceased to be a factor in English politics and died in London, England, Feb. 3, economics at Leland Stanford University, 1399. JOHN THE BAPTIST. See JOHN.
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