Excursion to the house of the Holy Virgin Mary. Holy spring. Wall of desires. # Turkey # Ephesus.
The House of the Virgin is a small building of the 7th century located in Ephesus, Turkey. n. NS. with a basement, roughly dated to the 1st century. n. e., which at the end of the 19th century, Catholic missionaries began to identify with the house in which the mother of Jesus Christ the Virgin Mary lived.
As a basis for such an identification, they cite the testimonies of some local residents and the published visions of the German nun Anna Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), who had never been to Ephesus. 2 years before her death, during one of the visions, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to her and described in detail the place where she lived before her Assumption.
According to legend, the Blessed Virgin Mary withdrew to Ephesus in 43 AD during the persecution raised by Herod against Christians (Acts 12: 1-3) together with the Apostle John the Theologian, where he was destined to preach the Gospel. By the time of Her blessed Dormition, the Blessed Virgin Mary again arrived in Jerusalem, in which the Dormition of the Theotokos took place.
In 1950, the building was renovated and turned into a chapel, where crowds of tourists flock. Although the Vatican did not officially recognize the building as the home of the Virgin, it was visited by Pope Paul VI (in 1967), John Paul II (in 1979) and Benedict XVI (in 2006).