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Patara

PATARA, a maritime City of Lycia1. St Paul in his Passage from Philippi to Jerusalem, comes to Miletus, thence to Coos, then to Rhodes, and from Rhodes to Patara, where having found a Ship that was bound for Phœnicia, he went on board, and arrived at Jerusalem, to be at the Feast of Pentecost.

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  1. Acts xxi. 1. In the Year of the Vulgar Æra 58. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Patara,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/p/patara/.

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