South Bassilica, a small church, which is said to be the church that St. Paul visited in 47 CE. Skylax, who lived in the fourth century B.C. and was the earliest of the ancient writers to mention Perge, states that the city was in Pamphylia. In the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles, the sentence "...when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia" PAUL AND BARNABAS returned to Perga (Greek, Perge) where Paul preached ("spoke the word") and then "went down to Attalia and from there they sailed to [Syrian] Antioch" (Acts 14:26). These are the only references to Perga in the Acts of the Apostles-or elsewhere in the New Testament,