Panaya Kapulu ("Doorway to the Virgin") aka Meryem Ana Evi (House of Mother Mary)
In 1880 a book was published that captured the hearts and imaginations of
many devotees of Mary, Mother of God. A German seer by the name of
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1771-1824) shared with the world her private
revelations in a book entitled The Life of the Blessed Virgin recorded by
Clemens von Brentano. In this intriguing book Mary’s House is described
in great detail including its exact whereabouts with descriptions of various
landmarks in the surrounding location. The House of the Virgin is first
discovered in 1881 by Father Julien Gouyet, of Paris, through the diligent
use of this book. Archbishop Timoni of Izmir (then Smyrne) did support
Gouyet’s work and sent him a helper. The report made to Rome and Paris
by Father Gouyet proved unpopular, however, and was disregarded.
http://www.kusadasi.biz/virgin-mary/
Emmerich had seen in her visions the Virgin Mary leaving Jerusalem with St.John before the persecution of Christians had become worse and their coming to Ephesus; she had also seen that the house in Ephesus was on a mountain nearby and that the Christians who had settled there before lived in tents and caves. She said furthermore that the house of the Virgin Mary, a stone house, was built by St.John, that it was rectangular in plan with a round back wall and had an apse and a hearth. The room next to the apse was her bedroom and there was a stream of water running it. Emmerich went on as follows:
"After completing her third year here she had a great desire to go to Jerusalem. John and Peter took her there. She was taken so ill and lost so much weight in Jerusalem that everybody thought she was going to die and they began preparing a grave for her. When the grave was finished the Virgin Mary recovered. She was feeling strong enough to return to Ephesus.
After returning to Ephesus the Virgin Mary became very weak and at 64 years of age she died. The saints around her performed a funeral ceremony for her and put the coffin they had specially prepared into a cave about two kilometers away from the house".
Emmerich narrated that at this point in her vision St.Thomas coming there after the death of the Virgin Mary cried with sorrow because he had not been able to arrive in time. Whereupon his friends not wanting to hurt his feelings took him to the cave. And she went on:
" When they came to the cave they prostrated themselves. Thomas and his friends walked impatiently to the door. St.John followed them. Two of them went inside after removing the bushes at the entrance of the cave and they kneeled down in front of the grave. John neared the coffin of which a part was protruding from the grave and unlacing its ties he opened the lid. When they all approached the coffin they were stunned in amazement: Mary's corpse was not in the shroud. But the shroud had remained intact. After this event the mouth of the cave containing the grave was closed and the house was turned into a chapel."
Also check this site for a virtual tour!
Atop a distant mountain in southwest Turkey, overlooking the ancient city of Ephesus, lies a shrine shrouded in mystery. Called Meryem Ana Evi (House of Mother Mary) by the native Turks, it is believed to be the last earthly home of the Virgin Mary. Unlike the Marian shrines of Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe and Knock, which are held to be the locations of apparitions of Mary, Our Lady of Ephesus is a shrine connected to Mary’s physical historical presence. Pilgrims who journey to Nightingale Mountain to visit the shrine believe it to be the site of her last earthly residence, the place of her death, and, for some, the location from which she was bodily assumed into heaven. Although sought out by more than a million Christian and Muslim pilgrims annually, Our Lady of Ephesus has received little attention from the academic world.http://religionnerd.com/2013/02/19/the-house-of-mary-the-discovery-at-ephesus/
http://www.sistermariefiles.com/MARYSHOUSEBLOG.pdf
In 1880 a book was published that captured the hearts and imaginations of
many devotees of Mary, Mother of God. A German seer by the name of
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1771-1824) shared with the world her private
revelations in a book entitled The Life of the Blessed Virgin recorded by
Clemens von Brentano. In this intriguing book Mary’s House is described
in great detail including its exact whereabouts with descriptions of various
landmarks in the surrounding location. The House of the Virgin is first
discovered in 1881 by Father Julien Gouyet, of Paris, through the diligent
use of this book. Archbishop Timoni of Izmir (then Smyrne) did support
Gouyet’s work and sent him a helper. The report made to Rome and Paris
by Father Gouyet proved unpopular, however, and was disregarded.
http://www.kusadasi.biz/virgin-mary/
Emmerich had seen in her visions the Virgin Mary leaving Jerusalem with St.John before the persecution of Christians had become worse and their coming to Ephesus; she had also seen that the house in Ephesus was on a mountain nearby and that the Christians who had settled there before lived in tents and caves. She said furthermore that the house of the Virgin Mary, a stone house, was built by St.John, that it was rectangular in plan with a round back wall and had an apse and a hearth. The room next to the apse was her bedroom and there was a stream of water running it. Emmerich went on as follows:
"After completing her third year here she had a great desire to go to Jerusalem. John and Peter took her there. She was taken so ill and lost so much weight in Jerusalem that everybody thought she was going to die and they began preparing a grave for her. When the grave was finished the Virgin Mary recovered. She was feeling strong enough to return to Ephesus.
After returning to Ephesus the Virgin Mary became very weak and at 64 years of age she died. The saints around her performed a funeral ceremony for her and put the coffin they had specially prepared into a cave about two kilometers away from the house".
Emmerich narrated that at this point in her vision St.Thomas coming there after the death of the Virgin Mary cried with sorrow because he had not been able to arrive in time. Whereupon his friends not wanting to hurt his feelings took him to the cave. And she went on:
" When they came to the cave they prostrated themselves. Thomas and his friends walked impatiently to the door. St.John followed them. Two of them went inside after removing the bushes at the entrance of the cave and they kneeled down in front of the grave. John neared the coffin of which a part was protruding from the grave and unlacing its ties he opened the lid. When they all approached the coffin they were stunned in amazement: Mary's corpse was not in the shroud. But the shroud had remained intact. After this event the mouth of the cave containing the grave was closed and the house was turned into a chapel."
Also check this site for a virtual tour!
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