Posted on 07/19/2013 7:04:59 AM PDT by Salvation
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PANAYA KAPULU (shrine)
Mary's home near Selchuk, Turkey, two hundred miles from Constantinople in western Asia Minor. The reputed house where the Blessed Virgin spent her last years on earth. Ephesus is mostly in ruins, but about ten miles from the old city Our Lady's house is a pilgrimage spot that receives five thousand or more pilgrims monthly. A Catholic priest is in constant attendance. Moslems as well as Christians have come here since 1691 to pay homage to Mary. the small house was rebuilt in 1951 after long years of pilgrims' feet had practically destroyed it. Pope Paul VI made a pilgrimage to this a shrine in July 1967.
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Beautiful.
Have you seen it in person?
Our priest took a group to turkey a couple years ago, and they visited this site.
Sounds Suomic.
No, but would love to go. Maybe after we get the last child married off . . . :-)
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