This
beautiful ancient of Patara was visited by Saint Paul during his third
Miisionary Journey. After Miletos Paul and his friends called at Patara
where they changed their ships. They found a bigger ship with which they
could sail on the open seas and take them to Phoenician Coast, to the
city of Tyre.
Acts
21:1,2
Paul
and Luke came to Patara during the third missionary trip
after the Miletos. It was in Patara they changed boat from a small
vessel to a larger
boat which could cope
with Mediterranean Sea.
Edremit
Edremit
is only mentioned in the new testament as the hometown of the boat Paul
took from Caeserea to Sidon then to Myra.