Ephesus Kusadasi

The House of Virgin Mary is located on Mount Bülbül (8 km from ephesus).

A Germen nun Anne Catherine Emmerich had a vision of the house of The Virgin Mary and described it to the Germen Writer Clemens Brentano who published a book about it. Catherine died in 1884. In 1891 two Lazarist missionaries from Smyrna (Izmir) rediscovered the building.

The house was from the 6th C AD but the foundations were from the 1st C AD. In 1896 it was declared a shrine of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII.

Pope Paul VI. Visited the house in 1967, Pope John Paul II. in 1979 and Pope Benedict XVI. in 2006.