Quoted from New Liturgical Movement [1]:
John was an Apostle, an Evangelist, and a Prophet: an Apostle, because he wrote to the churches as a teacher; an Evangelist, because he wrote a book of the Gospels, which the other twelve Apostles did not do, apart from Matthew; and a Prophet, for on the island of Patmos, whither he had been banished by Domitian because of his testimony to the Lord, he beheld the Apocalypse, which contains such infinite mysteries of the future. And Tertullian says ["] ... that at Rome, he was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.”
[1] https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2020/05/the-feast-of-st-john-at-latin-gate.html#.YnQrg4fMLIU
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