Philippi, Greece

Egnatia Way connected the East with Rome. Philippi was situated on this main highway.

After the tour of the Holy Land, I went to Greece and followed the footsteps of Paul. We flew into Athens and immediately boarded another plane to Thessaloniki and stayed at the Olympus Hotel for the time we were in Macedonia. We then boarded a bus for a full day excursion to Amphipolis, Philippi and Kavala (Neapolis). This was where Paul first set foot on European soil.

Philipppi is eastern Macedonia's outstanding archaeological site. Here it was that Brutus had his fatal meeting with Caesar's ghost when he and Cassius were defeated by Mark Anthony & Octavian in 42 B.C.

Philippi during the time of St. Paul was a Roman garrison town and the chief city in the province of Macedonia. It is located 10 miles inland from the port city of Kavala (the biblical city, Neapolis).The biblical account of Paul's initial visit to Philippi is found in Acts 16:11.

Paul and Silas ran into trouble when they exorcised an evil spirit from a slave girt who made her owners a great deal of money through her fortune-telling. They were arrested, severely beaten, and thrown in prison. Acts 16: 16-39