<Li> In his song "Everyman Needs a Companion," the closing track to his album Fear Fun, Father John Misty sings about the friendship between John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth: "John the Baptist took Jesus Christ / Down to the river on a Friday night / They talked about Mary like a couple of boys / With nothing to lose / Too scared to try ." </Li> <P> John the Baptist has appeared in a number of screen adaptations of the life of Jesus . Actors who have played John include Robert Ryan in King of Kings (1961), Mario Socrate in The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Charlton Heston in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), David Haskell in Godspell (1973), Michael York in Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and Andre Gregory in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). </P> <P> Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of Jordan: his beheading is said to have taken place in Machaerus in central Jordan . </P> <P> Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its capital city, San Juan . In 1521, the island was given its formal name, "San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico", following the custom of christening a town with its formal name and the name which Christopher Columbus had originally given the island . The names "San Juan Bautista" and "Puerto Rico" were eventually used in reference to both city and island, leading to a reversal in terminology by most inhabitants largely due to a cartographic error . By 1746, the city's name ("Puerto Rico") had become that of the entire island, while the name for the island ("San Juan Bautista") had become that of the city . The official motto of Puerto Rico also references the saint: Joannes Est Nomen Eius (Latin for "his name is John", from Luke 1: 63). </P>

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