Did Mary live in Ephesus? A licensed guide from Kuşadası weighs the evidence: the promise from the cross in John 19, John's years in Ephesus, the older Jerusalem tomb tradition, the unfinished sentence of the Council of 431, the archaeology of the house and the local tradition of Şirince.
Gaius of Ephesus was a companion of Paul who was dragged into the Great Theater during the riot of the silversmiths, and one of several men named Gaius in the New Testament.
In the hot summer of 431, two hundred bishops gathered in Ephesus and named Mary Theotokos. Let me walk you through the Council of Ephesus, and the church where it all happened.
Apollos was a first century apostle who was born as Jewish and later converted into Christianity. His name was mentioned several time in the New Testament.…
Hermione of Ephesus was not born in ancient Ephesus city. We know this since she was known to arrive to Asia Minor then to Ephesus looking…
Saint John the Evangelist spent a significant amount of time in the city of Ephesus. Ephesus is in Anatolia today. Saint John performed several miracles and…
The House of Virgin Mary on Bülbüldağı near Ephesus: the tradition of Mary's last years with Saint John, how a German nun's visions led priests to the ruin in 1881 and 1891, the popes, Muslim pilgrims, the holy water and the wishing wall, and how to visit it with the other Christian sites of Selçuk.
