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The Preaching of Saint Paul at Ephesus, Eustache Le Sueur, 1649. Ephesus was an important centre for Early Christianity from the AD 50s. From AD 52–54, the apostle Paul lived for three years in Ephesus, [54] working with the congregation and apparently organizing missionary activity into the hinterlands. [55]
He was released late in his life and returned to Ephesus, where it is traditionally thought that he wrote his Gospel. [3] Tradition also says that Mary the mother of Jesus lived in Ephesus near to John. [4] Apollos, a Jew from Alexandria who was a disciple of John the Baptist, arrived in Ephesus and met with Aquila and Priscilla. [1]
One of Emmerich's accounts was a description of the house the Apostle John had built in Ephesus for Mary, the mother of Jesus, where she had lived to the end of her life. Emmerich provided a number of details about the location of the house, and the topography of the surrounding area: [ 7 ]
In the 4th century, the relics of Timothy were transferred from Ephesus to Constantinople and placed in the Church of the Holy Apostles near the tombs of Andrew and Luke. [18] Later on in the 13th century, the relics seem to have been taken to Italy by a count returning from the crusades, and buried around 1239 in the Termoli Cathedral. [31]
The Eastern Orthodox Church tradition believes that Virgin Mary lived in the vicinity of Ephesus, at Selçuk, where there is a place currently known as the House of the Virgin Mary and venerated by Catholics and Muslims, but argues that she only stayed there for a few years, even though there are accounts of her spending nine years until her death.
Paul the Apostle lived in Ephesus, Asia Minor. The early Christian community of Ephesus was one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation. Philip the Apostle lived and was buried in Hierapolis, Turkey Constantine the Great, the founder of Constantinople, was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity.
Sosipatra was born in or near Ephesus, likely in the early 4th century CE, to a wealthy family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When she was five years old, two men came to work on her father's estate. [ 1 ] When they produced a bounteous harvest beyond all expectation, they persuaded him to hand Sosipatra, and his estate, over to their care.
And although the construction of this church was by imperial order, the people of Ephesus were the ones who did much of the building. [10] The marble decorations were made in Constantinople and perhaps in Ephesus as well. The bases, column and capitals of the nave were made and imported from Constantinople or the quarries of Proconnesus.