The interior of the Holy House of Mary, Mother of God, as it is today in Loreto, Italy.
Posted on 12/08/2018 7:17:28 AM PST by NYer
How did the Holy House take off from its foundations and reappear intact about 2,000 miles away, where it remains to this day?
At a conference organized by the “Amici del Timone” Cultural Center in Staggia Senese, Italy, titled “The Story of the Incredible Move of the House of Mary of Nazareth to Loreto,” a topic was developed which challenges engineering.
Indeed, the Holy House, birthplace of Our Lady and where the Archangel Gabriel announced to her the Incarnation, has been for many centuries in the town of Loreto (Santa Casa di Loreto), in the Marche region of Italy, facing the Adriatic Sea.
However, the Annunciation took place in Nazareth, in the Holy Land, where the foundations of the Holy House remain to this day. When compared with the dimensions and characteristics of the Loreto House, they match perfectly; but the similarities and concordances do not end there.
How did the Holy House take off, so to speak, from its foundations and reappear about 2,000 miles away, where it remains intact to this day?
According to historical evidence, the move took place in the thirteenth century; but how could it have been done given the poor technological resources of the time?
The move is attributed to an angelic action officially recognized by Popes and sustained by saints. However, such authoritative approvals are not intended to explain the material procedure, which carried an object the size of a house from one continent to another practically overnight.
This transfer, however, was confirmed by historical, documentary and archaeological evidence. Once again, for the astonishment of many, science confirms the Church.
Prof. Giorgio Nicolini, who devoted his life of study and research to the case, spoke at this conference. Based on these scientific evidences, he proved indisputably the veracity of the miraculous transfer.
During his lecture, Professor Nicolini demonstrated the existence of many documents and eyewitness accounts of the transfer, which science and human method cannot explain. He also established a chronology of the change of location.
1. On May 9, 1291, the Holy House was still in Nazareth.
2. On the night of May 9 to 10, 1291, it traveled nearly 2,000 miles and reached Tersatto (now Trsat), in the region of Dalmatia, in what is now a suburb of Rijeka, Croatia.
On that occasion, Nicolò Frangipane, feudal lord of Tersatto personally sent a delegation to Nazareth to ascertain whether the Holy House had indeed disappeared from its original place. The emissaries not only verified its disappearance but found the foundation on which the house was built and from which the walls had been taken away as a block. Around these foundations in Nazareth, the Basilica of the Annunciation was built. In Loreto, the Holy House stands firmly, without its foundation, directly on the ground.
3. On the night of December 9 to 10, 1294, the Holy House disappeared from Tersatto and landed “in various places” of Italy. For nine months it stayed on a hillside overlooking the port of Ancona, which thus came to be called “Posatora,” from the Latin “posat et ora” (to set down, or land, and pray).
A church was built on the site as a memorial, as was recorded at the time and signed by a priest “Don Matteo,” probably an eyewitness.
Two tombstones also commemorate this occurrence. One is from the same time period of the event and is written in old Vulgar Latin. The other, from the sixteenth century, is written in vernacular and is a copy of the older.
Posatora’s oldest tombstone already mentioned “Our Lady of Loreto,” making it clear that the inscription was done after the House’s departure from the site.
4. In 1295, after nine months in Posatora, the Holy House moved to a forest that belonged to a woman called Loreta, near the town of Recanati. That is where the name Loreto comes from.
5. Between 1295 and 1296, after spending eight months in this location the Holy House was miraculously transported to a farm on Mount Prodo belonging to two brothers of the Antici family.
6. In 1296, after four months at this farm, the Holy House departed and landed on a public road on Mount Prodo connecting Recanati to Ancona, where it remains to this day.
Countless other elements attest to the historical truth of this inexplicable translation of the Holy House. Three churches were built in Ancona—two still existing—testaments that eyewitnesses saw the “flying” Santa Casa arrive in Ancona and stop in Posatora.
Moreover, in Forio, on Ischia Island, fishermen who traded with Ancona returned narrating the events that had taken place in 1295. Their reports led the city inhabitants to erect a basilica dedicated to “Santa Maria di Loreto.” They also saw the Holy House in Ancona with their own eyes.
Various bishops of the region approved the veneration of the miraculous translations. For centuries the Popes renewed the approvals until Urban VIII, in 1624, definitively established December 10 as the Feast of the Translation of the Holy House of Mary, Mother of God.
Several Popes, including Paul II, Julius II, Leo X, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius XI documented their recognition of the translation. These respective documents, beyond their religious aspect in which the Popes recognize the event as supernatural, are recognized as valuable documents by historical science.
Professor Nicolini strongly reprimanded the materialistic mentality, at times agnostic, atheistic or Protestant, which seeks to discredit the authenticity of the Holy House venerated in Loreto.
In a way, this opposition encouraged deeper studies, which ended up proving the Holy House actually came from the Holy Land. Proofs include the chemical composition of the material used to build the house, its shape, and many architectural details.
Some, denying the angelic translation, went so far as to fabricate a story that a fanciful princely family from Epirus named “Angeli” had dismantled the house and transported it brick by brick at the request of the Crusaders facing the destructive advance of Muslims. That “family” then rebuilt the house in Loreto.
Such an operation, with the transportation conditions of the thirteenth century, would have been a more miraculous feat than the angelic translation.
The stones and bricks are kept together with a mortar whose physical and chemical composition is found only in Palestine and precisely in the region of Nazareth. They are nonexistent in the Marche region or anywhere else in Italy.
Moreover, if the house was dismantled and rebuilt in place after place along its journey—as claimed by its fanciful objectors—one cannot understand how it could possibly have maintained the exact geometric proportions of the Nazareth house, whose foundations, to this day, match perfectly the walls of Loreto.
Nor would it have been possible that nobody saw or heard the house being dismantled and later rebuilt, especially in the brief span of one night in the center of the shrine in Nazareth and then again in Croatia and Italy.
Even more inexplicable is the fact that the Holy House finally came to rest across an old dirt highway. On this road, the passage of animals and carriages naturally opened ruts in the center of the roadway, raising the roadsides, and forming ditches on both sides. Thus, the way the house landed, its three walls, with no foundation, are supported partly on ground and partly over open air. Today pilgrims can see this for themselves through a glass floor.
The Recanati City Hall, moreover, had already at that time forbidden the building of houses on public roads and had ordered demolished all buildings found to be in violation of the ordinance. How, then, could someone have rebuilt a house cutting across the road without anyone noticing?
Another great hurdle comes from the lack of means in those days to carry an entire house, even if dismantled brick by brick and stone by stone. It would weigh a few tons. Transport by road would have likely been unfeasible due the delay and the amount of chariots, animals and men it would require. Transportation by sea, while more feasible, would also have been too time-consuming and prone to loss due to storms.
More complicated still would be to cut the walls in segments and take them intact on a 2,000 mile journey and then glue them back together without leaving traces of the joints. These material factors, Prof. Giorgio Nicolini explained, postulate the impossibility of such transportation with the technical means of the time.
From Professor Nicolini’s long and detailed demonstration it is clearly much more reasonable to believe the angelic translation resulting from a wondrous work of God, for Whom nothing is impossible, and Who has worked far greater miracles.
For human hands to have performed such a translation is to consider an event even more miraculous than that done by the work of angels.
Indeed it does. Have visited the shrine several times. Perhaps your cousin is familiar with the hermit of Loretto.
Poor lady was being fed pig food (refried beans) in Mexico City and few days later she was tweeting from Meskin cafe in Dallas, TX.
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Wow I have never heard that before. Thanks Bull Smell! I am now a protestatnt!
So the Israelites built houses 4 meters high in those says?
That’s TWELVE feet plus some.
Who in their right mind would waste their time to build a house THAT tall with that much wasted space when your every day life is more centered around trying to eke out enough of a living to survive?
And typical fall back position to try to save face.. *Catholics are not required to believe it*.
SO WHAT??????
Apparently enough of them are gullible enough to do so. And Catholicism has certainly not discouraged believing in this fantasy.
Dude. Sit. Down.
I want some!
Where do I send the money?????
You know what? I also have some really nice beachfront property in FL for sale. Interested?
Really? Where?
The only one I see is ealgeone.
Isaiah 6:3Paul says he is not boasting of anything except what God has done through him.
"And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory."Romans 15:17
Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.
As with Mary, we do not boast of anything except what God has done through her. This does not distract from Christ: it magnifies Him. Mary says "My soul magnifies the Lord." The LORD is her glory.
And we say more: ALL the saints are glorious. Christ the King says
Revelation 3:21So all the saints are sitting with Christ on His throne. Does that strike you as -- in your words -- "idolatry and worse?"
To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
A royal wife bows to her royal husband (1 Kings 1:31). Later, her royal son, because of his own magnanimity, bows to that same queen --his mother ---and seats her on the throne next to himself:
1 Kings 2:19Check your Bible concordance where people are approved for honoring others. They bow, they bend the knee, they even prostrate themselves to their husbands, to Abraham, to King David, to King Solomon, to Queen Bathsheba...
When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
Psalm 45:9
Daughters of kings are among your honored women;
at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.
By Biblical standards, we don't do it nearly enough.
Glory, veneration, honor --- these things are not forbidden. They couldn't be, because we are commanded to honor others: Honor your father and mother. Honor the king. Honor to whom honor is due.
Romans 13:7What is forbidden is idolatry: giving to some creature the supreme adoration which pertains to God alone.
Render to every person what is owed to him: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom is due; respect to whom respect is due; honor to whom honor is due.
But the lesser glories, the dulias which are not primary but are *reflections*, are spread very thickly around the Universe. Scripture says all of HIs Creation is given, and reflects back, its proper share of glory.
This is not idolatry. It is obedience.
Honor for the holy ones of God is rather thin in this profane world of course. It is even thinner in this-here particular neighborhood. I wish we were more Biblical in this matter of giving the full, good measure of respect, glory, veneration, and honor. Don't you?
Who saw it moved?
Could you provide credible witnesses and non-fraudulent revisionist history?
I don’t put trust in my church.
I put my trust in Christ alone.
Church is just where I go for fellowship and worship.
I’m not sure it was *angelic* transport.
Unless you are referring to the fallen ones.
Interesting
Your handling of the scripture is abysmal.
And so, ealgeone, your observation about Catholics being the first to make it personal continue to hold true.
First it’s accusing you of profanity, of which I saw none, nor ever have from you.
Now it’s 3rd grade level mockery of someone’s name.
Hey, Cuban, are you going to even address the topic of the thread or just continue to engage in personal attacks, trying to discredit the messenger because there’s simply NO WAY under the sun to defend this laughable claim?
I can see the reasoning now. *If I discredit the person exposing the fraud, then what he says is by default invalid, and therefore his criticisms of it are wrong and it makes the story appear valid without having to offer proof of it.*
It’s because of stuff like this that I’m a Protestant.
I give the full measur of glory honor and veneration to the One who is worthy and Him alone. That is what is Biblical.
From a thesaurus....
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/worship
Worship:
adoration
church service
devotion
prayer
rite
ritual
adulation
awe
beatification
benediction
chapel
deification
exaltation
genuflection
glory
homage
honor
idolatry
idolization
invocation
love
offering
praise
prostration
regard
respect
reverence
service
supplication
veneration
vespers
laudation
That pretty much covers it!
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