If you pay attention to titles in these inspirational pieces, you might have some guesses who the “humble saint” might be. Of course, I have made the attribution, so I obviously know whom I will name. But if I saw it cold, the first guess I would make is St. Francis, the venerable saint of poverty, nature and the animals. And that would have been so true. But the person I have so named, “the humble saint,” in this piece is St. John the Baptist. John the Baptist actually has two saint days in the Catholic calendar. Both his birth and his death are celebrated on separate days in June and August. Only the parents of Jesus receive comparable honor in the Christian calendar. John the Baptist has intrigued me for a long time---almost as long as I have studied religion. In many ways, he is much easier to relate to than Jesus. Let’s look a bit closer at the man and his role within the faith tradition. The Gospel of L...