Self-ping for that article later. I visited the house when I was 17 and, although not particularly religious at the time, was swept away by the whole Ephesus thing.
My wife, a Catholic from India, does tend to affirm the stories that tell of Muslims venerating Miriam.
You’re married to a Catholic from India? Very neat! That sounds like my parents- my Mother, the daughter of a Polish immigrant and a man whose family has been here since colonial times; and my Dad, a Filipino who emigrated to the U.S. in 1975.