(Reuters) -- Pope Benedict visits one of Christianity's most revered sites Wednesday, the ancient city of Ephesus near the Aegean Sea. The city is close to where the Virgin Mary is said to have died.

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If anything exists that could possibly upstage the pleasure of a pilgrimage to Ephesus, the most extensively and miraculously intact ruins of any ancient city in Europe, it's that most imperious ...