It is probably fair to say that the Book of Revelation, the last book in the bible, is also the last to be read by most Catholics, even among those who do read scripture regularly. True, it is packed with dramatic, symbolic language (which is why it is often called the Apocalypse), but it also contains letters to real groups of people (churches) living in real places. There were seven of these Churches and in October, Fr Peter Verity led a group of 36 people, mostly from his own parish of St. Anthony’s Preston, on a pilgrimage to these places. The travellers called themselves pilgrims because they went, not just to look at what is left of these places, but to discover for themselves what those letters in the Book of Revelation can still say to us today. The Seven Churches were located in what we used to call Asia Minor or Anatolia and is today called, Turkey.

Modern Name	Biblical Name	Reference
Izmir	Smyrna	Revelation 2: 8 - 11
Efes	Ephesus	Revelation 2: 1 - 7
Eskhisar	Laodicea	Revelation 3: 14 - 22
Alasehir	Philadelphia	Revelation 3: 7 -13
Sart	Sardis	Revelation 3: 1 - 6
Akhisar	Thyatira	Revelation 2: 18 - 29
Bergama	Pergamum	Revelation 2: 12 - 17