On our way back from Ephesus, our bus cliimbed the narrow road up the hills to the reputed House of the Virgin Mary. This is now an active, if tiny chapel, built over the foundations of the house where it is claimed that St. John brought Mary to live out her last years--safely, if inconveniently outside the city, still rather hostile to this new sect.
We passed the friendliest machine-gun guard
We passed the friendliest machine-gun guard
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