St John is believed to have spent the last years of his life in Ephesus writing the Gospel of John. Emperor Justinian (527-565 AD) believed that a tomb dating from the 300s was John’s, so he built a great church above it in the 500s. After the death of Christ,...
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House of Virgin Mary Nearby Ephesus
At the beginning of the 19th century, Anne Catherine Emmerich, a bedridden Augustinian nun in Germany, reported a series of visions in which she recounted the last days of the life of Jesus, and details of the life of Mary, his mother. Emmerich was ill for a long period of...
Continue reading...The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord...
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Located on Turkey’s South West coast, Ephesus is not only an important historical site but is also the best preserved of all the classical ancient cities of the Mediterranean. Located in the heart of an extremely fertile valley, in its day Ephesus was a thriving centre of trade as well...
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