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Mljet - Melita in Dalmatia is the island of St. Paul's shipwreck (The Ragusan tradition on St. Paul's shipwreck)

The eastern Adriatic coast had been connected from prehistory, antiquity and the Middle Ages with places at the western coast of the Adriatic Sea, but also with certain areas of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to fishing, exchange of goods and travel, the Adriatic Sea also experienced shipwrecks, as testified by a number of finds. The tradition in Dubrovnik about the shipwreck of St. Paul the Apostle in the waters of Croatian Island of Mljet is almost two millennia old. Is Mljet – Melita in Dalmatia the island of St. Paul’s ship¬wreck? The final say in the determination of the itinerary of St. Paul’s ship from Caesarea to Rome, as well as the place of the shipwreck is the prerogative of the maritime science, whose con¬tri¬bu¬tions were little known and therefore unused by our biblical scholars in the clarification of the problem. At the end let us point out that the dilemma left by the author of the Acts is not easily solved, but that there are numerous in¬di¬cations in favour of the thesis that Pauline shipwreck took place on the Adriatic Melita.

Melita; Mljet; Dalmatia; St. Paul's shipwreck; Ragusan tradition

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