Biblical Persons Asia Minor Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary
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.
Important Biblical Personalities
Saint Paul
Saint Peter
Saint Barnabas
Saint John
Saint Titus
Saint Timothy
Saint Barbara
Saint Nicholas
Saint Polycarp
Saint Helen
Saint Silas
Saint Margaret
Saint Blaise
Saint Philip
Saint Thecla
Saint Jacob
Saint Basil
Saint Ephraem
Virgin Mary
Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory the Illuminator
Constantine The Great