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Agency history record.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto

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Catholic Church. Congregatio Lauretana.

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The sanctuary of Loreto was a very popular destination for pilgrims in the late Middle Ages. According to tradition, the home of the Virgin Mary, when threatened by destruction by the Turks, was carried from Nazareth by angels and deposited (in 1291) on a hill at Tersatto in Dalmatia, where an alleged apparition of Mary and subsequent cures attested to the holiness of the house. Three years later it was transported in like manner across the Adriatic to a laurel grove (hence Loreto) ...