'll tell you I'll tell you now now wait who is she who is stuck who is that
right those with the bottom there is nak she here yes yes we see her yes
when you get together I will talk to you c this is Paul's place, just like in the beginning,
at the foot of the apostle Paul, so we are at a very
important site, a very important archaeological site, which receives the
evidence of another early Christian basilica of the end of the 4th beginning of the
5th century let's say that Christianity was established as an official religion of the
Roman state at the end of the 4th century, so from then on they started opening
churches all over the empire and in Cyprus the oldest one of the
oldest is this one here a huge basilica you see the columns inside
they belong to a huge basilica which originally had seven domes seven arches
seven keys then it became pentacle they were destroyed by the Arab raids
in the 7th century we had it here they had destroyed the cities the Arabs from the
7th century the Arab raids start and it was excavated by the antiquities department
a few decades ago here but in the place where this
early Christian basilica was built there was, according to the archaeologists, the
Roman um which was the market of the Roman times one of the two cities
that operated then in ancient times in the Pa and it seems that here it had
Paul spoke first and then he was called by the proconsul, who they said was
Sergius Palos, to his palace in his wickedness, which was a little further down,
I'm taking a video, and he spoke and then and there he did this well-known miracle that
I started to tell you about on the bus, but he didn't I completed it with elma there was
this limas the leader of the jewish community who lived here who had
such a great influence and they looked up to him arrested and so on and tried
to prevent the apostles from preaching the gospel and as it says in the
acts of the apostles that the reader is reading in June I think
they are reading that is in a letter that Paul sent in the second
letter to the Corinthians he mentions these events he says, Paul turned and
told him you're going to saddle up, for nana, learn not to put obstacles in front of and when
he saw this miracle, the Roman proconsul believed in
the gospel and was baptized a Christian, and
other Paphos of that time followed his example, according to some other
traditions that we have here and there that come from the so-called apocryphal
gospels that we do not officially admit but are a source of much
information about the ecclesiastical tradition of Cyprus and elsewhere the apostle
left here and they continued and I went back to the curio to teach in the other
areas and this our Eli who found his light again in the meantime
his blindness was not permanent it was just to demonstrate the power of God and for
others to see and believe he followed the apostles and did not
let them enter the main local tradition says to teach anyway here
there is a column a column this one low not too low the other next
to which there is a sign below so it is said that this was part of
the Roman market and the tradition here is that they tied it to a pillar when they were here
they tied it to a pillar the Romans who ruled Cyprus at the time and
flogged him and gave him forty lashes that is, 39 scumbags, another yes, another
version is that it is not 40, but the
punishment they gave him was called that because the Romans in those years used a whip that
had 39 straps in three bundles it was the whip that was used so they
only whipped it once so again it is 40 params because it had 39 and we also have a phrase
to this day we say it in Cyprus in the old days when parents used to tie the kids now
we don't beat you, I told you I'd give you 40 param, sit down, think about it,
we're still talking about something else, but we don't beat now we forbid we shouldn't beat the
mats so also the other thing that is said here is that this is
a tradition Paul didn't say it but they say that Paul said it that because he
was beaten here in Paphos you whip him then Paul that there is no A
good man who is good, and if he is good, he is not good, he had said
that because he was not good, he did not exist.
Paphos who beat him are the Romans of the time if this
event really happened, tradition says that it happened and this is the place where the
apostle taught when he came with Barnabas and here in the market they tied him and
scourged him on the pillar that tradition says in fact also the church that
is in the background is Agia Kyriaki it is from the 13th century but in the last
40 years he has given it away he has not given it away he has given it away to
use it to have it the Paphos Metropolis gave it to the Catholics and
Anglicans because they haven't seen the church people in Paphos and we have
a lot of foreigners here and it is now used for Catholic and
Anglican services and around here all that huge thing you see
in front of there is the basilica of the Tau with the 5th century and next to here this
part is the Franciscan church of the medieval times, the
Franciscan monks who were a Catholic order had a monastery here they had built it
in place that tradition connected the apostle paul and the teacher and
his flagellation they had built it here you see it is a separate church let's
say the arch above etc when the ottomans came and occupied cyprus in
1570 71 they turned this church into a mosque the rest was covered with
dirt and there the church had remained orthodox this here they had made it a mosque
after a few years it became a a terrible earthquake in 1222 here and it was damaged and
occupied, the area was covered and the excavation was done a few years ago and
the old church was seen, now below this church there are underground
caves that tradition says that this was the prison where the Romans
κράτησε τον απόστολο Παύλο για δύο μέρες και δύο νύχτες, λέει όταν αυτό το επεισόδιο με
ο Έλληνας συνέβη εδώ, οπότε ήταν ιερός τόπος για όλους ακόμα και στους μεσαιωνικούς χρόνους ναι
γιατί αυτό το ήξεραν και οι σταυροφόροι την εποχή που κρατούσαν την Κύπρο την
σταυροφόροι 13ος 14ος αιώνας προσκυνητές ήρθαν από τα δυτικά για να πάνε στο
ιερούς τόπους και περνούσαν από την Κύπρο και έρχονταν πάντα εδώ στην Πάφο
για προσκύνημα γιατί αυτό το μέρος ήταν που συνδέθηκε με τον απόστολο Παύλο και εγώ όχι
ξέρετε αν είναι ακόμα εκεί, υπάρχει μια πλάκα εκεί, θα τη δούμε όταν φύγουμε, που λέει αυτό
εδώ σε αυτό το μέρος πέθανε και τάφηκε ο βασιλιάς της Δανίας, Ερρίκος ο Καλός
σε προσκύνημα στις 12, και πέθανε εδώ από ελονοσία και κάηκε
κάπου εδώ
. εδώ και στους ορόφους
της εκκλησίας, της παλαιοχριστιανικής βασιλικής, έχουμε όμορφα ψηφιδωτά,
απαγορεύεται να μπούμε άλλο μέσα γιατί θέλουν διόρθωση, θέλουν αυτά
επισκευάστε τη διαδρομή, υπάρχει ένα αμπέλι που πουλάει, γράφω, και όλα τα
γραφές, είμαι αληθινό κλήμα, στον πάτο μου, κάπου πίσω κτλ είναι τα ψηφιδωτά
που έβαζαν στις παλιές χριστιανικές εκκλησίες και έβαζαν
αρτοσκευάσματα στους τοίχους κ.λπ., και δίπλα ήταν η επισκοπή, ακόμα πάνε ένα
καφενείο στη νότια πλευρά και έχουν βρει ίχνη της επισκοπής, δηλαδή το κτίριο όπου
ο επίσκοπος έζησε ήταν πάντα ένα πάχος επισκοπής από τον 4ο αιώνα όταν
οι επίσκοποι δημιουργήθηκαν, έχετε κάτι να μας ρωτήσετε, καλά είμαστε, είμαστε
μια χαρά, είμαστε όλοι λεπτομερείς, είμαστε όλα αυτά εδώ παίρνουμε τη ρητίνη και
το φτιάχνουμε από πού παίρνουμε το τενεκεδάκι από το οποίο
δέντρο δ οικογένειες με το μαστιχόδεντρο αλλά μεγαλώνουμε όπως το λέμε
το ίδιο πράγμα, γιατί είναι
την Παναγία, όταν ήρθαν εδώ, δεν την κατέστρεψαν
γιατί ένα σύννεφο το σκέπασε, η Παναγία
, και οι Άραβες που ήρθαν στο
σιγά σιγά καταστρέψτε δεν το είδα, ρωτάω
εσείς
