Foreword At the time when the Quebequers of French descent were very Catholic, Saint John the Baptizer, followed by his sheep, was chosen as their patron saint. But, after the « quiet revolution » of the 60s, the Baptizer and his sheep were literally wiped off the face of the earth. And rightly so. It was because those two great symbols of the Christian world, John the Baptizer and the Lamb, had become purely sentimental images, good only for the consumption of the devout people and for the folk show, without any serious connection with the political, economic, social and cultural situation suffered by the people since the Conquest of 1759 by the British. According to the spirit of Jesus, the saints, the Church and her sacred signs, and also the Gospel itself, when we empty them of their prophetic content, « they are no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. » ...