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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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