Πηγή: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_of_John_the_Baptist 

Several different locations claim to possess the severed head of John the Baptist. Among the various claimants are:[3]

• Muslim tradition maintains that the head of John the Baptist is interred in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

• In medieval times it was rumored that the Knights Templar had possession of the head, and multiple records from their Inquisition in the early 1300s make reference to some form of head worship.[4]

• Some Christians believe that the head on display in San Silvestro in Capite in Rome is that of John the Baptist.

• Amiens Cathedral claims the head as a relic brought from Constantinople by Wallon de Sarton as he was returning from the Fourth Crusade.

• Some believe that it is buried in Turkish Antioch, or southern France.[3]

• It is believed that a piece of his skull is held at the Romanian skete Prodromos on Mount Athos.

Numerous other relics of John the Baptist are also believed to exist, including the following:

• According to tradition, Luke the Evangelist went to the city of Sebaste, from which he took the right hand of the Forerunner (the hand that baptized Jesus) and brought it to Antioch, his home city, where it performed miracles. It is reported that the relic would be brought out and shown to the faithful on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (September 14). If the fingers of the hand were open, it was interpreted as a sign of a bountiful year, if the hand was closed it would be a poor harvest (September 1 was the beginning of the liturgical year and the harvest season).

• On January 7, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfer of the Right Hand of the holy Forerunner from Antioch to Constantinople in 956 and the Miracle of Saint John the Forerunner against the Hagarines at Chios

• In 1263 during the Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders, the Frankish emperor Baldwin gave one bone from the wrist of Saint John the Baptist to Ottonus de Cichon, who in turn gave it to a Cistercian abbey in France.

• It is said John the Baptist's arm and a piece of his skull can be found at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.

• In the year 1484 the right hand of the Forerunner was given away by the son of Sultan Bayezid II to the Knights of Malta on the island of Rhodes in order to gain their good-will. The Knights later transferred the relic to Malta. When the Russian emperor Paul I (1796-1801) became Grand Master of the Maltese Order, the right hand of the Baptist, together with other relics, were transferred in the year 1799 (because of the Napoleonic threat) from the island of Malta to the chapel of the Priory Palace at Gatchina in Russia (this transfer is commemorated on October 12).

• John the Baptist's right hand is said to be in the possession of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Cetinje monastery, in the Republic of Montenegro.

• The right hand is also reputed to be kept a the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos

• Relics of John the Baptist are said to be in the possession of the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt.[5]