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Ignatius of Antioch wrote seven letters at Smyrna and Troas while Roman soldiers took him to die in Rome: to Ephesus, Magnesia, Tralles, Rome, Philadelphia, Smyrna and Polycarp. A licensed guide from Kuşadası tells their story, the first "catholic church" and what survives of them.
Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, disciple of the Apostle John and bishop of ancient İzmir, was burned in the stadium of his city. The full story of his arrest, trial and martyrdom from the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and where to remember him in İzmir today, from a licensed local guide.
The story of the early Christian martyrs is rarely as simple as it sounds. Let me walk you through the real persecution of early Christians in Asia Minor — site by site.
Why these seven cities, and why in this order? The answer is a road. Let me walk you through the seven churches of Revelation, the way the first messenger did.
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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.
