Of all the figures who surround the Gospel narrative, John the Baptist is among the most austere and the most widely honoured, venerated in the Christian churches of East and West and named in other traditions of the region as well. Preaching by the Jordan, calling for repentance, baptising those who came to him and recognising in Jesus the one he had announced, he stands at the hinge between the prophets and what follows, and countless churches across the Holy Land carry his name. This programme is a portrait of one of them, filmed without ornament: the volume of the building, the quality of its light, the objects of the liturgy, the community that gathers there and the devotion the Baptist still attracts. Shot in 4K, a short and self-contained title for strands on sacred sites and religious traditions.
