nativity of christ, immediately following the next day is the feast of saint stephen and old king wenceslaushe was a deacon and our first martyr. he died in about 35 so we know he lived in the time of christ . >> died in jerusalem? >> yes because he preached the gospel of christ and they said you have to back off. he said i am not going to. you can kill me but i'm not going to let go. but this story is told in the acts of the apostles? >> it's interesting to me the first day after jesus's birth is the third first death on his behalf. it is a grim start to the religion . >> it doesn't get any nicer because the following day is the feast of the holy innocents. >> let's look at that slide a little information is there also . >> feast of st. john, john the evangelist show him as the eagle in many depictions of him. mainly because he is the most spiritual of the gospel, he is 50,000 foot level of gospel. very poetic. >> he was one of jesus's disciples. we credit the gospel . >> we credit him there is a lot of debate in that on scripture scholars. some say he is the gospel jesus loved. often refer