Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-09
IN MARY's HOME
.r epHEsUs OF THE Fr,ou OF CHESTS MOTHER.

..a Site Is Undouoteoiy eof-
 fa' ,u;u Probably De Built to
 sao Spot
 .+;np news has just come
 W that some time since Q
 asiouarians, in digging over
 ss tba ancient city of Ephesus,
 'p s'jaor. g came across the house in
 Tiroin Mary lived after she
 \ x I.,,lsalem and before she went
 .+ ys Sion, where she died
 ss' s .ssll known that the Virgin W e sane years of her life in
 lall' 'o5 inc ambition of antiquari-
 @ ans aa to find the habitation she
 as e'r rbe announcement has been |1'ss .al times that the place had
 .a hut careful investigation
 l tba satisfaction of the Vati-
 tbora was no foundation for '''sI aonneements - that the anti
 T ;n their oyerzeal had made < A's So b,hitation just unearthed at
 spg a,,qt hereafter be regarded IS .'''s sss inc Virgin occupied, for the s's s''bas officially declared it was '.s tbe seal of it's approval, so ad- s' ss hand state, on the announce {. .sst fine crumbling walls of the s.'as ''' fonpd in the ruins of ancient E'ss sS onee sheltered the mother of |asapemer. This approval was not < sorriedly, but only after most |E.slFa evidence had been submitted & ssne that there could be no mis- |s69nt the matter.
 |qjn be a disappointment to all in- |Ialin such matters that no details ssslac Il habitation accompany the |snIpment of it's discovery. But the uas probably of the kind so com- |;o those days-a plain, one Storied |tan, twill be interesting to know Sstcondition it was found and if |lte possible to restore it to it's kaIsha9e.
 |w Ephesus will possess from this ba ] more than usual interest for E.hsistiall, aud the probability is { Stately cathedral will yet be N so mark the spot where the Vir- |sssed some of the later days of her Itwas from this place that she usvaa to Mount Sion. where she The body was placed i'll a sepul- Sa Ind Garden of Gethsemane, but a a few days later, the apostles a fAe stone away from the door of the body was not there. |ee arose the tradition of the as- Bti0n of the Virgin into heaven, q Bioa that Titan transferred to can IHa made one of the greatest crea- |d his genius.
 ass1s was very ancient city on 1est coast of Asia Minor. It was \ an fertile plain near the mouth q liver Cayster and partly on some |that rose gradually from it. It was i i among the ancients as the site of lmple Of Diana. The place was an Etant city and commanded an ex- ge and varied commerce. Tradition that it was originally inhabited 2 mgthical amazons. It was early afIH by the Ionians, the time, ac- |lg lo tradition, being the eleventh gyB. C., and from that event dates 1sFQry of Ephesus as a Greek pos p Il figures ill church history also |ze | was at q general council of huNh held there in 431 that the yM Nestorius was condemned. g Ilaee will now figure further in 2 History owing to the discovery QI the Virgins habitation.
 ' why the Virgin sought refuge in Aus fhere are several stories in the 'lons that have come down to us ifias dim past, but the one that 'e be most generally credited by : E that it was due to persecu- 1hat broke out in Jerusalem. Aft smal scenes in the tragedy of the axlen had been enacted, Mary, ac- x klled by Mary Magdalene and St. 'ne Evangelist, to whose care the 'n0 had committed his mother, eafo Jerusalem. There they re- z x plltll the prosecutions forced " \. seek safety elsewhere, and they hpaesas, The Virgins 8 flight into ''s' under the protection of John, Fsh made the theme of many a z bunting, ill which the Virgin sfa y pictured with halo about 's'sa and walking beside John, 'eenieanor is most reverential to ~ as known, nothing has been to us with regard to the 7 ' the Virgin at Ephesus, no q her life there, or any incl ~ s lt' beyond the fact that it was aa Magdalene breathed her last. ssa'elnent 'ss'' is made by various
 sl'efs, and one of them, in de- @ Journey he made to Jerusa- Ssa ne l saw the tomb of Mary Mag a1 ,;s Lphesus. There is also good 8 8' Tor the statement that the ss sl-eon removed the remains of @ aalene from Ephesus to Con
 e m the year 890 and deposit- z i the church of St. Lazarus. 3Ss le ". some writers who say that
 sngin and Mary Magdalene ss at Ephesus they used to sit
 oles or the Icarian sea and