Samos Sámos
Themistokli Sofouli Street 11 Sámos, Northeast Aegean Islands, 83100, Greece
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Samos
Thursday morning we boarded a ferry boat in Kusadasi which took us back to Greece, to the Greek Island of Samos. Samos is very close to Turkey, as little as 3 miles at one point. The port in Samos was on the other side of the island and it took a little over an hour to get there. When we arrived I was happy to see that the hotel was right across …
Patmos
Friday we took a day trip from Samos to the island of Patmos. This is a very small island but is famous because it is where St John was exiled by the Roman Emperor. On this island is the cave where St John was exiled to and where he wrote the Book of Revelation. There is also a Monastery of St John which was begun in the 11th Century AD. We took a …
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... been the author of Revelation who was exiled onPatmos. By the second century this John was equated with John the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of John (presumed also to be the same person as John the Apostle, beloved disciple of Jesus).Legend had it that John wrote his gospel in Ephesus at the request of other disciples, then died in the church named for him on ...



