Crossword-Solution: PATMOS
We have 6 clues for the answer “PATMOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Island of St John's exile. | 1 answer |
| JOHN the Apostle and Evangelist, banishment isle of: | 1 answer |
| The island where St. John saw the visions of "Revelations." | 1 answer |
| Where St. John wrote the Revelation. | 1 answer |
| DODECANESE Islands, island of the | 24 answers |
| Aegean island | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATMOS (5)
John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.
During a persecution of the Christians, the aged John of Patmos has been secretly conveyed, by some faithful disciples, to a cave in the desert, where he is dying.
The bell was hung outside the door of that Patmos in the wilderness--otherwise known as the head-waiter’s pantry.
Waverley's mind involuntarily turned to the Patmos of the Baron of Bradwardine, who was well pleased with Janet's fare, and a few bunches of straw stowed in a cleft in the front of a sand-cliff: but he made no remarks upon a contrast which could only mortify his worthy tutor.
Patmos was a place of unhappy memories, but he drove through the little hamlet so fast that he scarcely thought of his unpleasant sojourn there the summer before.
Quotes with PATMOS (2)
During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea. It was there he wrote his Apocalypse. It was only after the death of Domitian, in A.D. 96, that he returned to Ephesus, where he was still living during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117). He became so old and frail that he could no longer walk and had to be car…
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1956).