2013 Big Adventure

Kusadasi - P.44

baptismal pool

A key-shaped baptismal pool.

It was hot. We were thinking the people with unbrellas were pretty smart.

olive trees

The grounds were really pretty!

Lots of olive trees.

These are historic notes about the shrine. They were in every language you could think of. It says this is the last known house of the Virgin Mary. The evidence is in the scriptures. It talks about the same things I mentioned at the Tomb of St. John. Then the historical facts. The Tomb of St. John and the Basilica of the Virgin plus oral confirmation of the villagers. Then it talks about the discovery of the house. A nun with stigmata, Catherine Emmerich, who never left Germany had visions of where the Virgin Mary spent her last days. She described everything in detail down to the Ephesus hills. In 1891 a scientific expedition found the house exactly as she described. It was rebuilt back to the original foundation to date back to the 1st and 4th centuries. The last restoration took place in 1951.

Virgin Mary House

We finally see the house!

It looked like they held church services there.

Closer!

When we got really close to the house we could see how very small it was.

The House of the Virgin Mary is a Catholic and Muslim Shrine.

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