Callirhoe
The hot springs.
Inhabitants or Natives
A person possessed by Beelzebub.
Description
Hot springs on the east shore of the Dead Sea, near Machaerus.
Notable Facts
The apostolic group faces a series of attacks: They encounter a possessed person at Callirhoe "the second one was possessed by Beelzebub!"[1]
Its Name
Callirhoe, Callirhoé, Zereth-shahar; The beautiful spring
Where is it mentioned in the work?
GRM 502
Learn more about this place
It is at these hot springs that Herod the Great, gangrenous and "devoured by worms," comes to try to be healed. In vain. He will die shortly after at Jericho.
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel According to Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:During a pilgrimage to Mount Nebo, in the autumn of the third year, Jesus passed through Callirhoe, where he was very poorly received. Later, when their path crosses that of a possessed person, Jesus says to Peter: “My dear Peter, and do you think that they are not possessed? Do you think that to be possessed one must be like the man from Callirhoe or like other people we have come across?”[2]
The hot springs of Callirhoe were famous in antiquity. Flavius Josephus reports that Herod the Great came there seeking relief for his many ailments.
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• 31° 35’ 49’’ N / 35° 33’ 34’’ E
• -395m
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