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...Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor which today lies ruined in a low, unhealthy marsh, was the traditional home of the Virgin Mary after she left Jerusalem. To Ephesus, in 431, went papal legates, Eastern patriarchs, bishops, to meet in judgment of a grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed...
With the Mass Salve Sancta Parens (the special mass of the Blessed Virgin) the anniversary of Ephesus was widely celebrated last month. This week His Holiness Pope Pius XI will issue the year's fourth encyclical, lauding the Blessed Virgin and urging the Nestorian Church to abjure its heresies and to return, after 1,500 years, to the fold...
...Ephesus, led by Professor Keil of Vienna, diggers located what they guessed were the labyrinthine catacombs wherein the seven Christians of about 250 A. D., who were later called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...
...conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward of all his tribulations is only fairy gold, but the story of his life is a romance...
William Walcott, whose daring experiments, with color and impressionism in his pictures of ancient temples in Ephesus and Babylonia have caused a sensation in London art circles, is well known in the streets of London because of his long beard. Wherever he goes he is assailed with loud cries of "Beaver...