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After Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven, where did Mary go to live? Although the Scriptures do not give an exact location, they do provide some clues.
After Jesus said to his mother on the Cross, "Woman, behold your son," and to St. John, "Behold your mother," the Gospel adds that "from that hour the disciple took her into his home" (Jn 19:27). One tradition has it that Mary followed him to the city of Ephesus. It is there that the episode of the Assumption allegedly took place and not in Jerusalem, as another tradition reports.
This version is supported by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich: the 19th-century German mystic received the private revelation that Mary's home was in Ephesus, at the site of Meryem Ana Evi, literally the "House of our Mother Mary" in Turkish, 9 kilometers from the present-day city of Selçuk and about 80 kilometers from Izmir, Turkey, in the vicinity of the former city of Ephesus.
This shrine has grown rapidly since its discovery in the late 19th century through the ecstatic visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich. It was recognized as a holy place by Rome in 1896, although it is not officially considered the place of the Assumption.