John never ate until sunset and lived on a diet of dried fruit and vegetables for fifty years.
[1] He was believed to possess the spiritual gift of prophecy and often predicting the future and knowing the details of persons he had never met.
Saint Augustine wrote that John was tempted by devils and performed miraculous cures.
[citation needed] According to Butler, John prayed incessantly, and he spent the last three days of his life without food or drink or any interactions but prayer.
[citation needed] His feast day is March 27 in the Western churches and June 12 in Eastern Orthodoxy.