In the Foorsteps of Paul

 

 

 

Antioch of Pisididia, soldier's entrance

 

Lots of legion memorabilia

 

sitting in the gate that Paul must have gone through

 

 

 picture from the internet may help visualise the gate

 

 

This city gate was paid for by the family of Sergius Paulus

The apostle Paul's first convert

Acts 13: Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man,

sent for Barnabas and Saul because

he wanted to hear the word of God

 

Next a giant temple complex

 

you can see the holes where the second story was supported

, another picture from the internet

 

underneath the temple in the middle was a Mithraeum

 Mithra was worshipped by soldiers

 

Later we went for a long hike

a sign of the bull in the house (Mithra)

 

 

a steady climb up, we hiked about 18km that day

 

 

at the top we came to a Mithraeum

Mithra was a mystery religion but very popular

they found hundreds of Mithraeums in Rome alone

 

the weird thing is that it had things in common with Christianity

the enemy is clever, he is "almost right "

 

we needed our flashlights on the way down

Rien and I had been Dan this day, Dan is the tribe that

always traveled in the rear. Together with John, Nancy and Randy

was a good experience