Hello, my fellow pilgrims. As we continue with Paul on his second missionary journey, we leave Thessalonica and make a quick stop at a site Paul did not see when he sailed the seas. The Corinth Canal was 2500 years in the making! It is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth to the Ionian Sea in the west and the Saronic Gulf to the Aegean Sea in the east. It separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, making the peninsula an island. The first attempt at building the Corinth Canal was in 67 AD, when the Roman emperor Nero began the canal. The work ceased when he encountered a revolt, ran out of money, and died shortly thereafter. Work on the canal began again in 1882 and was completed in 1893, which brought economic benefits to the area. The Corinth Canal is about four miles long, has a water depth of about twenty-six feet, and the width ranges from a minimum of sixty-nine feet at the bottom to a maximum of eighty-two feet at the water’s surface, making it quite narrow. A highway crossing the canal connects Athens and the Peloponnese. Continue reading “JOURNEYING WITH PAUL TO CORINTH”