Category:Patmos

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Patmos - A small rocky and barren island, one of the group called the "Sporades," in the. It is mentioned in Scripture only in Revelation 1:9. It was on this island, to which St. John the Evangelist was banished by the emperor Domitian (A.D. 95), that he received from God the wondrous revelation recorded in his book. This has naturally invested it with the deepest interest for all time. It is now called Patmo. (See St. John the Evangelist.)