Mary and Diana (II)

A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary, when the mob went into the amphitheater, shouting for the death of Paul, the town clerk told the people that he had not mentioned Diana by name. For two hours the crowd in the arena shouted praises to Diana of the Ephesians until it reverberated on the every side. Then a recorder, an important civic official, calmed the angry crowd. Two of Paul's companions in travel, Gaius and Aristarchus, had been carried into the theater with the crowd. Paul himself was on the point of going there but his disciples bade him to hide. St Paul, looking back on those moments, said: "We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, inasmuch as we despaired even of life itself." Paul was obliged to leave the city later on. (...) Despite all that, Paul established the Church in Ephesus--to which he later addressed one of his epistles--while its bishop was the first of the seven to whom the Book of Revelation is addressed. Interesting still is the fact that in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were yearnings for a god among men, so it happened that Diana, the Moon Goddess, found her fulfillment in Mary, who is described as having the moon under her feet.