Okay, we celebrated this feast on Sunday, January 11. It is more or less assigned to January 13, but celebrated on the Sunday following the feast of the Epiphany, which is January 6 but moved to the first Sunday in January. Also oddly, the Feast of the Epiphany is considered to be a celebration of the visit of the Magi, plus the Baptism of Jesus, plus the Wedding Feast at Cana. Never mind. The Italian Art Society has a whole line up of gorgeous images of the Baptism. Frescoes, bronzes, mosaics, paintings: they have it all.

Today (13 January) is the traditional Feast of the Baptism of Christ, though it is now typically observed on the first Sunday after Epiphany (in 2016 it was celebrated on January 10 ).

There is also a fabulous picture of the Baptism of Christ from a post in August. https://catholicfictioncatholicscience.com/2025/08/29/art-and-saint-augustine/ Just scroll down.

ANd this picture from the National Gallery is more similar to a Hudson River School painting than to a medieval fresco. The waters of the Jordan are stormy! https://www.nga.gov/artworks/12125-baptism-christ

The header is from the National Gallery of Art. It has no individual artist’s name but simply says, Netherlandish, late 16th century. But it’s a great picture.

I’m working on my next book even while I try to consider marketing for Death Comes to the Science Fair. Mrs. McClaren’s Mystery might be a good working title. I’ve been looking up the laws and regulations surrounding death in Ohio. If you are homeless and unknown there’s a very clear process for getting you buried in a pauper’s field. If you are surrounded by family there is also a clear process. However, if you only have friends and no family, the process is a bit less clear. Hopefully, this will allow me to create a little mayhem while everyone hunts for a will that they aren’t entitled to see until it is published.