Myra

Myra appears once in Scripture as the pivotal transfer point in Paul's voyage to Rome: "And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein" (Acts 27:5-6). The first ship had hugged the Asian coast; the second was a large Egyptian grain transport bound for Rome — the wrong choice late in the sailing season, as the ensuing Mediterranean storm and shipwreck on Malta would prove. Myra later became the see of the bishop best known as Saint Nicholas.