About St. Paul The Prison of St. Paul in Ephesus
St. Paul's Prison
Although St. Paul in the letters
he addressed to the churches in Greece, Macedonia and Anatolia
frequently refers to the persecutions he suffered it is difficult to
guess what exactly these persecutions were and where he suffered
them. It is not known if his words about the 'the affliction that
came to us in the province of Asia' (2 Cor 1:8) involves an
imprisonment.
According to the apocryphal Acts of St. Paul however, in the Ephesus
the furious population 'put St. Paul's feet into irons, and shut him
up in the prison, till he should be exposed as a prey to the lions.
But Eubola and Artemilla, wives of eminent men among the Ephesians,
being his attached disciples, and visiting him by night, desired the
grace of the diving washing.
And by God's power, with angels to escort them and enlighten the
gloom of night with the excess of the brightness that was in them,
St. Paul, loosed from his iron fetters, went to the sea-shore and
initiated them into holy baptism, and returning to his bonds without
any of those in care of the prison perceiving it, was reserved as a
prey for the lions'
Later Christian traditions, because of its proximity to the Aegean
Sea, associated the westernmost tower of the fortifications on Mt
Coressus (Bulbul Dagi) with this baptism.
Journeys of St. Paul
About St. Paul
Traveling in St. Pauls Time
City of St. Paul
Antioch on the Orontes
Seleucia Pieria
First Journey
Ministry in Antioch - Orontes
Second Journey
Third Journey
Arrest and Imprisonment
Journey to Rome
Story of Paul and Thecla
St. Paul's Letters
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