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HOLY MARY IN EPHESUS - how did Mary dress while living in Ephesus? WHEN SHORT TIME AFTER CRUSIFIXION AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS PERSECUTIONS OF EARLY CHRISTIANS IN JEWISH STATE BROKE OUT, HOLY MARY, TOGETHER WITH HER SERVANT, st. JOHN the APOSTLE, MARY MAGDALENE AND SOME OTHER OF HER JEWISH FRIENDS, ESCAPED FROM ISRAEL TO EPHESUS, A METROPOLY OF 250 THOUSANDS INHABITANTS IN PRESENT DAY TURKEY, THEN THE SECOND AFTER ROME, MOST IMPORTANT CITY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - IT'S CULTURAL AND FINANCIAL CENTER AND THE ACTUAL GATEWAY TO ASIA FOR ROME. LOCATED WHERE THE WEST MEETS EAST, EPHESUS WAS A BUSTLING MELTING POT OF DIFFERENT CULTURES AND NATIONS. THE STANDARD OF LIFE IN EPHESUS AT THAT TIME, WAS HIGH LIKE NOWHERE ELSE ON THE GLOBE /for example: running water at private houses and apartments/. JUST AFTER ARRIVING AT EPHESUS /39 AD/, HOLY MARY WITH OTHERS, LIVED IN THE VERY DOWNTOWN OF THE CITY, IN AN APARTMENT BY “HARBOR STREET“, LEADING TO THE PORT OF EPHESUS. AFTER A FEW MONTHS, WHEN JOHN the APOSTLE, HAD A HOUSE ON A “NIGHTINGALE HILL“ COMPLETED FOR HER, SHE MOVED THERE WITH OTHERS AND THEY LIVED TOGETHER IN A NEW HOUSE /look - sister Mary of Agreda - “The Mystical Town of God“/. LIVING ON A “NIGHTINGALE HILL“, THE SLOPES OF WHICH TOUCHED THE CITY WALS, WAS FOR MARY LITERALLY STILL LIVING IN EPHESUS, BECAUSE, THE RICHEST PEOPLE OF THIS ROMAN METROPOLY, IT'S ARISTOCRACY, LIVED JUST ON THESE SLOPES, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MARY'S HOUSE, IN THEIR SPLENDID “TERRACE HOUSES“, FAMOUS FOR THEIR LUXURY. IN EPHESUS, HOLY MARY DRESSED LIKE OTHER ROMAN WOMEN DID. SHE EVEN FOR HER WEDDING WITH JOSEPH WHILE STILL LIVING IN ISRAEL, DRESSED NOT AS THAT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR JEWISH WOMEN AT THAT TIME, BUT AS ROMAN WOMEN GOT DRESSED 300 YEARS LATER, WITH NAKED NECK AND CHEST, WEARING A LOW-CUT DRESS. / look sister Anne Catherine Emmerich - “The Life of Mary“/.
