Notes

SAN JUAN the Evangelist, who is recognized as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" and to whom he is often called "the divine"
Along with his brother James, John was mending nets on the shore of Lake Galilee, where Jesus, who had just called her service to Peter and Andrew, the also called them to be his apostles. Jesus Christ himself gave them to John and James the nickname of Boanerges, ie "sons of thunder"
It is said that John was the youngest of the twelve Apostles and everyone else survived. It is the only of the Apostles not martyred.
In the Gospel who wrote refer to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved", and clearly was the most intimate of Jesus. The Lord wanted it to be, along with Peter and James, at the time of His transfiguration, and during His agony in the Garden of Olives. On many other occasions, Jesus showed John his special fondness or affection.
"Woman, behold your son," his mother murmured Jesus from the cross. "Behold your mother" told John. And from that hour the disciple took her as his. The Lord called us all brothers and we instructed the loving care of his own mother, but among all adopted children of the Virgin Mary, San Juan was the first. Only to him was given the privilege to physically take Mary home as a real mother and honor, serve and care for himself.
After the Ascension of Jesus, we meet with Peter and John went up together to the temple and, before entering, miraculously healed a cripple. The two were captured, but were freed in order to refrain from preaching in the name of Christ, to which Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God. We can not help speaking about what we have seen and heard. "
San Juan is certainly a man of extraordinary and at the same time mystical depth. To love him so much, Jesus teaches us that this combination of virtues should be the ideal man, ie the requirement for a fully man. This model hits the Macho Man is subject to false flattery in culture, a prisoner of his man instincts. Why art tends to represent San Juan as a gentle person, and, unlike the other apostles, beardless. You need to retrieve San Juan as model capable man to lay his head on the heart of Jesus, and precisely why be brave to stand at the foot of the cross as any other. No wonder Jesus called him "son of thunder." Before Maybe worse, but once transformed in Christ, to the glory of God.