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.
1) Mother Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Who is God, andWe are commanded to not worship a false idol. Do you pray to Jesus? Why?
2) Mother Mary is the Mother of the Son, Who is also God.
Who is the Father of Jesus? In other words, did Mary become pregnant by the Holy Spirit?
According to Scripture, Who created Mary?
Something that is interesting to me is that Jesus is not biologically in the line of David. Joseph the Just is His sterp-dad
“ I have come to believe that:
1) Mother Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Who is God, and
2) Mother Mary is the Mother of the Son, Who is also God.”
Your belief - no matter how sincere does not make the false true.
“We are commanded to not worship a false idol”
Yet your expressed belief does just this. It is idolatry.
Tell me which part(s) are false, that I may correct my error(s) and walk in truth.
Thank you, both for me and for the silent others who will benefit.
Not your mother.
Not the spouse of anyone but Joseph.
Not the mother of God.
Never in Scripture.
How did Mother Mary get pregnant?
Do you pray to Jesus? Why?
Who are Jesus’ parents?
Who created Mary?
Mysterious, isn’t it?
Please simply proving from scripture that your claims are true.
So far you have not.
It’s easy. Just answer the questions as told in Scripture. The seeking is the best part.
Human logic and our rational understanding don’t work all that well with His Spiritual Mysteries.
“You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
--Obi-Wan Kenobi
Especially religious truths.
Chapter and verse please.
You’ve not shared it yet.
I concede that I haven’t provided chaperter and verse to answer the questions I asked you.
Congratulations, you have vanquished me on the field of spiritual warfare.
Your undefeated record remains untarnished.
Wouldn’t it be better to just discuss what God said??
Are you saying you do not have any scripture references to back up what you are claiming?
Sorry, you would not be correct! Jesus' lineage going back to King David is traced from BOTH Joseph (his stepfather) and his biological mother, Mary. See:
Fulfillment
"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." Revelation 22:16
Christ's Geneology
The two primary genealogies of Christ's ancestors are found in Matthew chapter 1, it's the first thing in the New Testament, and then Luke chapter 3.
Both Luke and Matthew trace the genealogy from Jesus to David, so there's no question that Jesus is the son of David. Matthew goes through Joseph, and it's a patriarchal line.
Evidently what Luke does, if you'll notice the father of Joseph in Luke is different from the father of Joseph in Matthew. And it says here in Luke chapter 3 verse 23, "And Jesus Himself, being about 30 years of age, being as was supposed the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli."
Now that's different from what you're going to find in Matthew chapter 1 verse 16. The real father of Joseph is Jacob in Matthew 1:16. But evidently, Joseph's father-in-law, Mary's father, was Heli; and it's tracing the genealogy through Mary's father on. So in the Bible it's not uncommon to call the father-in-law the father. Matthew's genealogy traces it directly through the literal parentage and fathers of Joseph. Luke's genealogy goes and says Joseph's - it was always an insult to just go right to the mother - so it talks about Jesus' father, but it then traces the genealogy through Joseph's father-in-law, which was Heli.
Now the interesting thing is, there are places where the genealogy of Matthew and Mary merge and they intersect, so Mary and Joseph were [distantly] related also. So it doesn't really matter. Through either one of their genes, Jesus was the son of David. (https://www.bibleuniverse.com/articles/prophecies-fulfilled-by-jesus-first-advent/id/1903/of-davids-lineage)
Mary is named *the mother of JESUS* by the Holy Spirit in Scripture. the phrase *mother of God* is nowhere to be found in Scripture.
God tells us how Mary became pregnant in Luke 1:35 “ And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; “
That’s all the detail He gave us and that’s all we need to know.
I don’t pray to Jesus. Jesus commanded us to pray to the Father in His name. I don’t know what anyone else does.
Mary was Jesus mother. God was His father and Joseph was His surrogate father.
2) Mother Mary is the Mother of the Son, Who is also God.
You've proved neither about Mary from Scripture.
Nor does Scripture give dear Mary the title, “Mother Mary.”
No one wants to vanquish you at all. People simply want you to rightly divide the word of God, and discover the REAL truth. In my opinion, based on your views of Mary, please consider doing some more honest searching. 👍😇
Surely he didn’t say this .......and don’t call me Shirley.
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