Sign in the Ephesus Market

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And the hucksters were really shouting "Fake watches! . . . Fake watches!"

(Meaning, I gather, imitations of name brand watches–not things that look like watches but do not tell time.)

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

15 thoughts on “Sign in the Ephesus Market”

  4. If my shop was there my sign would say:
    Genuine
    Fake
    Watches
    NEW and USED
    GUARANTEED… with certificates proving the high quality of fakeness!

  7. Yeah, looks like Jimmy bought this from a post-card rack, and is passing it off as his own. Sort of a double entendre thing.
    Does remind me, tho, of a shot in the uncut Blues Brothers movie, a sign outside a street vendor’s place says “We cheat you fair.”

  8. I enjoyed Turkey when I went there. Good food, kind people, and the dollar went far when I was there. It was VERY hot when I was there. The Hagia Sophia was beautiful. Antioch was interesting. Pamukkale was very interesting. Bodrum was a lot of fun (before I was fully brought back in the faith). Lots of history, lots of religion (although most living Christians are gone)
    When I was in Ephesus it was interesting that
    1. There were a lot of French pilgrims singing.
    and
    2. I did not know that there were verses in the Koran about Mary that were written in the chapel in the home and that some Muslim women come to venerate her there.
    I am not sure if the house at Ephesus is Holy Tradition or historical fact–didn’t some saint (Catherine of Emmerich?) identify the location in Turkey?
    Is it that St. John the Beloved took Mary to Ephesus to live there until she “fell asleep” (the Dormition?) and her home was there? Isn’t there another tradition that her home came to Loretto Italy miracously? (although that one sounds a little more mythological although through God all things are possible)
    As a side note wasn’t Pope John XXIII (23?) the papal pro nuncio (ambassador?) to Istanbul(really Constantinople)? (or am I thinking of someone else?)
    (Angelo Roncalli?)–forgive my history
    Didn’t he help save a lot of Jewish lives in WWII?
    If anyone has the time and money to visit Turkey I would highly recommend it.

  9. May Our Lady of Ephesus, the Blesse Virgin Mary, the Theotokos PRAY FOR US (all of us)
    and especially PRAY for Jimmy Akin and all pilgrims to keep them safe and Bless them

  10. Of course there were those 3 Christian guys who were just tortured and killed there simply for being involved in a Christian publishing operation. That’s sort of a disincentive for me to go…

  12. Rome mozarella balls are great
    wine with lunch
    Turkey the Iskendur Kebab
    the yogurt on the meat
    lokmanjune (phonetic)
    donage
    small breakfasts
    but real nice size lunch with pasta always and wine
    forget about your diet
    We are Catholics (thus don’t believe in reincarnation) and thus you only live once!
    related to food (not morality): Carpe Diem
    although certainly generally:
    Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

  14. “Genuine Fake Watches”
    Talk about a contradiction in terms!
    Is there any place in the world that don’t sell knockoffs these days?
    Sheesh!
    Jimmy,
    While you’re there, remember to buy all of us dem fake Rolex watches as a souvenir! ;^)

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