Some history here

 it's not a nice thing so come if you want to come here please I

'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

kept the apostle Paul for two days and two nights, he says when this episode with

the Greek happened here, so it was a sacred place for everyone even in medieval times yes

because the crusaders also knew this at the time when they held cyprus the

crusaders 13th 14th century pilgrims came from the west to go to the

holy places and they passed through cyprus and always came here to paphos

for pilgrimage because it was this place that was connected with the apostle Paul and I don't

know if it is still there, there is a plaque there, we will see it when we leave, which says that

here in this place he died and the king of Denmark, Henry the Good, was buried

on a pilgrimage on the 12th, and he died here of malaria and was burned

somewhere here

. here and on the floors

of the church, of the early Christian basilica, we have beautiful mosaics,

we are forbidden to go inside anymore because they want correction, they want these

repair the route, there is a vine that sells, I write, and all the

writings, I am a real vine, in my bottom, somewhere behind, etc. are the mosaics

that they used to put in the old Christian churches, and they used to put

baked goods on the walls, etc., and next to it was the diocese, they are still going a

cafe on the south side and they have found traces of the diocese, that is, the building where

the bishop lived was always a diocese thickness since the 4th century when

the bishops were created, you have something to ask us, we are fine, we are

fine, we are all detailed, we are all this here we get the resin and

we make it from where do we get the tin from which

tree d families with the mastic tree but we grow how the we say

the same thing, because it is

the Holy Mother of God, when they came here, they did not destroy it

because one clouds covered it, the Virgin Mary

, and the Arabs who came to

slowly destroy it did not see it, I ask

you