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VIRGIN MARY'S HOUSE
The Virgin Mary’s House It is known with certainty That the
Virgin Mary went to Ephesus and lived there for some time.
Whether or not she died in Ephesus was not known until Anne
Catherine Emmerich’s vision. The stigmatized German nun who
had never been to Ephesus had a vision of the House of the
Virgin Mary and described it in detail to the German writer
Clemens Brentano who later published a book about it.
Catherine Emmerich died in 1884. In 1891 Paul, Superior of the Lazarists
from Izmir read about her vision and found a little building
which corresponded with Emmerich’s descriptions.
Archeological evidence showed That the little house was from
the 6C AD but That the foundations were from the 1C AD.
This place was officially declared a shrine of the Roman
Catholic Church in 1896, and since then it has become a
popular place of pilgrimage. Pope Paul VI visited the shrine
in 1967.
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