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📍Holly Monastery of Panagia Sumela, Turkey!!

The Holy Monastery of Panagia Sumela is a Christian monument in the Sea of ​​Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey. It functioned as an Orthodox monastery until the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922. It is built inside a cave on a steep slope of Mount Mela, in the hinterland of Trebizond, from where it takes its name, (Pontian: sou Mela, cleaning: eis tou Mela).

indicative list of World Heritage Sites (since 2000)

According to tradition, in 386 the Athenian monks Barnabas and Sophronios were led to the inaccessible mountain peaks of Pontus after an apparition of the Virgin Mary, in order to establish her solitary abode.

The monks Varnavas and Sophronios, with the support of the neighboring Vazelona monastery, built a cell and then a church inside the cave, to which the icon had been miraculously transported. The serious problem of the monastery's water supply was solved, also according to tradition, in a miraculous way.

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Basilica San Paolo Fuori le Mura. Ostiense, Rome, Italy.

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Basilica San Paolo Fuori le Mura. Ostiense, Rome, Italy.