A licensed guide looks at the legacy of the seven churches of Revelation: how the text survived the canon debate, what the seven cities and their Christians keep today, and the lessons for modern believers.
Seven tombs of saints you can still visit in Turkey: Apostle John in Selçuk, Apostle Philip in Hierapolis, Saint Nicholas in Demre, Timothy, Polycarp, the Seven Sleepers and the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. What is really there, what is only tradition and what you see today, from a licensed guide in Kuşadası.
Where the Seven Churches of Revelation are today: the modern name of each city, its province, road distances from İzmir and Selçuk, what you can see at each site and short 2 to 4 day plans. Practical notes from a licensed guide; you arrange your own transport and hotels.
How the imperial cult in Asia Minor worked, from the first temple of Roma and Augustus at Pergamon to the Temple of the Sebastoi in Ephesus, what neokoros meant, the debate about Domitian and why the early Christians of the Seven Churches refused. From a licensed guide in Ephesus.
Seven saints of the early church were born in Anatolia: Paul, Nicholas, Polycarp, Timothy, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom. Where each was born, what they did for the church and what you can still see of their hometowns in Turkey, from a licensed guide in Ephesus.
Ancient Smyrna sleeps under modern Izmir, and the region around it is packed with apostolic history. Here are my top 10 Christian sites in Izmir and nearby.
Irenaeus of Lyon grew up in Smyrna, today's İzmir, learned from Saint Polycarp and became bishop of Lyon, where he wrote Against Heresies.
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 story of the church of Smyrna in Revelation, from the ancient city under today's Izmir to the martyrdom of Bishop Polycarp.
A short guide to the city center of Izmir: Konak Square and the Clock Tower, Kemeraltı Bazaar, the Agora of Smyrna, two museums and the Kordon seafront.
Homer and Troy go together because Homer is the poet behind the Iliad, the old Greek epic about the war for Troy. The poem is a…
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.
Kemeraltı Bazaar is the old market quarter in the center of Izmir, with crafts, mosques, synagogues and caravanserais along its lanes.
