Rhodes
Here’s the Bay of St Paul on the island of Rodos. Rhodes is known mostly for the Colossus which once stood at the entrance to it’s principal bay. The Colossus was an enormous bronze statute which fell into the sea centuries ago and was never replaced. Today two columns stand at the base of the ancient Colossus. On the top of each column stands a deer which is the symbol of the island which was saved from snakes by bringing in deer. The bible doesn’t mention much about Paul’s stay in Rhodes, but he took shelter in this small bay from a storm his ship ran into on its way from Crete.

Rhodes follows many of the Greek islands with its own acropolis. We are getting our exercise on this trip by hiking up to the highest hill on each island to the top where the temple was built. I think this temple, like the one in Corinth, was dedicated to Apollo. I tried to illustrate how the Christians might have tried, in a Samson-like manner, to take these temples down. The guy on the left is a priest from Brooklyn with whom I concelebrated Mass on Saturday evening.

Antony and Hope joined us in Frankfurt as they flew in from Dallas. We celebrated their 46^th year of marriage at the banquet on our last night on the Greek ship Aquamarine. Tomorrow we sail for Patmos and then disembark in Turkey to continue Paul’s journey’s through Asia Minor.