Holy lodge of st jones

The designation "the Holy Lodge of St. John" served as a generic traditional term for a Freemason's lodge in early eighteenth-century catechisms, such as The Whole Institution of Masonry (1724), a paper read before Quatuor Coronati Lodge notes.

The two Saints John—St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist—gained increased prominence in eighteenth-century Craft Masonry, eventually becoming regarded as patron saints and "the two great parallels" of the fraternity, a paper read before Quatuor Coronati Lodge records. This association established the custom of holding traditional installation meetings on their patronal festival days, June 24 and December 27.

Before the eighteenth-century adoption of the Saints John as patron saints, the historic patron saints of the operative stonemasons were the Four Crowned Martyrs (Quatuor Coronati), cited in early medieval texts such as the Regius Manuscript of circa 1390, as a paper read before Quatuor Coronati Lodge explains.