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Virgin Mary
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We have no written
historical evidence witnessing to the
presence of the Virgin Mary in Anatolia.
The Gospel mentions Mary when narrating
the birth and childhood of Christ and,
'en passant,' only once during the
public life. John himself, in the
Gospel, mentions Mary twice: in the Cana
wedding account and in that of the
passion, telling us how Christ addressed
his Mother from the cross entrusting to
her the disciple he loved and entrusting
to John his Mother. According to a very
old local tradition, during the first
persecution of the Christians in
Jerusalem, in the year 49 A.D., the
Apostles thought to put the Mother of
the Lord in safety, and John, to whom
the Lord had entrusted his Mother,
accompanied Mary to Ephesus, where she
might have lived, if not until she died,
at least for some years, until the
situation in Jerusalem changed. Meryem
Ana Evi, or the House of Mother Mary is
the Shrine, partly reconstructed, of the
small house where the Blessed Virgin
lived during her stay on the mountain
overlooking Ephesus. |
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