House of the Virgin Mary

[Byron Jack Gaist]

There is a house in Seljuk, Turkey, near Ephesus, known as the "House of the Virgin Mary". It was seen in one of Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions to be the last residence of the Mother of God, and has subsequently been made a Roman Catholic place of worship. Also in Seljuk is a basilica of St John the Theologian, claimed to be the site of his tomb. The story being, that St John brought the Theotokos to this place in Asia Minor following the Crucifixion when our Lord placed her in his care.

What perplexed me on visiting Seljuk, was that I wondered what our own Orthodox Tradition of the final residence of the Mother of God might be, if we have any; also, what about St John in Patmos? Did he go there after the Dormition? Was he never in Ephesus according to Holy Tradition?

In Christ
Byron

[Theotokodoulos]

God bless you!!
In the Orthodox Tradition , the Theotokos travelled to various places for example: to cypress , to ephesus, to mount athos..
What I know is that she lived with St. John a few years in Ephesus and than returned to Jerusalem where she died on Friday the 13. August in the 9th hour like Christ and after 3 days she returned from heaven and with her body she assumpted to heaven.
Some time after the Dormition St. John was exiled to Patmos ,where he wrote the Apocalypse ( some traditions say that he never died).

In Christ
Alexander

There is also a house of the Theotokos in Loretto ( Italy), a legend says that angeles brought it to Loretto when Jerusalem was occupied by the arabs?