June 29, 2007

• Ephesus

  This city has some incredible ruins and I took hundreds of
  pictures!  Everywhere you turn are ruins
  of temples or fountains dedicated to the gods, mythical figures, and emperors
  that are so well known. Here I am at Ephesus,
  in front of the façade of the library.
  

  Here we are in the theater of Ephesus where Dimitrius made his
  speech against Paul, crediting him with the falling off of the worship of the
  goddess Diana (Artemis) and the sale of her images.
  

  Funny how the great Diana of the Ephesians isn’t much of a
  power in our world today, but the God how Paul preached is worshiped around the
  globe.  It’s also interesting to note
  that in this city where the female goddess of fertility was worshiped Mary
  worship continues (at the ruins of what is purported, based on a nun’s
  supernatural visions, to be the home which John provided for her) and the
  doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was adopted.  Here is all that remains of the temple of Artemis, once the largest and grandest
  of its kind in the world. 
  
  

  My sister traveling Paul-style.
  

  I had to include this one.
  

  Also in Ephesus
  is the ruins of a huge basilica which was built over the tomb believed to be
  that of the disciple John.
  

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