Publisher's Synopsis
Acts of John, apocryphal Christian writing, composed about ad 180, purporting to be an account of the travels and miracles of St. John the Evangelist. Photius, the 9th-century patriarch of Constantinople, identified the author of the Acts of John as Leucius Charinus, otherwise unknown.
The original text, dating from the 17th century, narrates the apocryphal stories of Christ's youngest and most beloved disciple. It chronicles St John's journey from Jerusalem to Ephesus and Patmos and his trials and tribulations. The message of light over darkness and of good over evil prevails in this astonishing story. This is an opportunity both for the casual reader and the academic to follow St John in his later life according to the accounts of his disciple Prochorus.
