At Patmos, we are staying at a hotel that is covered with flowers (see the photo to the left). Patmos is significant to the study of early Christianity because the author of the Book of Revelation (John) wrote his work on this island in the last decade of the first century. He addressed seven churches in Asia Minor (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea). We will visit some of these sites in the coming days.
Today we visited the Monastery whose patron is the author of the Book of Revelation, known in the Greek church as St. John the Theologian. The monastery affords a magnificent view of the island.
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