Pergamum & Thyatira Postcard
Finding clear vision from the ancient imperial capital's acropolis
On the way out of Smyrna today, we stopped in a church named for St. Polycarp (whose relics have been lost). Though there has been a church there since the 17th century, the present church is of 20th-century French construction, and architecturally undistinguished. But the parish is named f…
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