Julien Gouyet
Julien Gouyet was a French priest, credited with discovering the
Klemens Brentano, 1852) Gouyet discovered a house near Ephesus in Turkey, said to be the House of the Virgin Mary.[1][2] Pope Leo XIII visited in 1896, and in 1951 Pope Pius XII declared it a Holy Place. Pope John XXIII made the declaration permanent, and popes Paul VI (1967), John Paul II (1979) and Benedict XVI (2006) all visited the shrine.[3]
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References
- ISBN 0-19-921074-8page 76
- ISBN 0-88010-407-4page 12
- ^ Vatican website
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