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Science Confirms: Angels Took the House of Our Lady of Nazareth to Loreto
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| August 7, 2016
| Luis Dufaur
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.
Posatoras oldest tombstone already mentioned Our Lady of Loreto, making it clear that the inscription was done after the Houses 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 Anconatwo still existingtestaments 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 journeyas claimed by its fanciful objectorsone 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 Nicolinis 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.
TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: catholic; holyhouse; loreto; loretto; mary; nazareth; ourlady; usualtrollbird
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
It’s far more than whether it’s a crime or not. As clergy, who ought to have SOME familiarity with Scripture, there’s the issue of morality.
Abortion is not a crime, but it’s far from morally right. Same with homosexual marriage.
And the appeal of *I didn’t know it was a crime* does NOT excuse him at all in the least of not knowing that it was MORALLY wrong and a sin.
God isn’t going to want to be hearing excuses when His moral law is pretty clear on the issues of sexual morality and harming children.
The guy is getting a double whammy on Judgment Day.
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posted on
12/19/2018 12:42:24 PM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: GBA
You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
--Obi-Wan Kenobi
From Wikipedia:
Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor,
and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way.
The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
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posted on
12/20/2018 5:33:40 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Confirmation bias works both sides of the aisle.
1,163
posted on
12/20/2018 5:35:01 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
How did the Holy House take off from its foundations and reappear intact about 2,000 miles away, where it remains to this day?No; it is STILL: WHY?
WHY did the angel(s) block the road with it?
1,164
posted on
12/20/2018 5:36:39 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
And once again, the Catholics leave and we are left to write limericks.
This speaks either to our stubbornness, our passion, or the fact that we just really love talking Scripture.
To: GBA
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. Mormons believe that God The Father has a wife, a goddess wife in heaven that is. Why? Because it just makes sense.
To: DungeonMaster; GBA
Mormons believe “Heavenly Father” is married to “Heavenly Mother”
Some Roman Catholics believe Mary is the Spouse of God
Both false.
To: Luircin
That our limericks cause Catholics to leave;
‘Tis a reason to cry, sob and grieve.
But is it our passion?
or merely a fashion?
No matter; to my Bible I’ll cleave.
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posted on
12/20/2018 6:04:38 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: aMorePerfectUnion; teppe; Normandy
1,169
posted on
12/20/2018 6:08:22 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GBA
I concede that I havent provided chaperter and verse to answer the questions I asked you.
The scriptural proof that Mary (Miriam) is the mother of God is as follows:
- The Virgin would be the mother of Immanuel.
- The scriptures testify Mary is the mother of Jesus.
- The scriptures testify Mary is the mother of Immanuel (Emmanuel).
- The scriptures testify Jesus is Immanuel.
- The Holy Spirit interprets the Hebrew word "Immanuel" literally, "God with us."
- Mary is the mother of "God with us".
- Thus, Mary is the mother of God with us.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
...
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Isaiah, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verse fourteen,
Matthew, Catholic chapter one, Protestant verses eighteen to twenty three,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
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posted on
12/20/2018 8:49:07 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: af_vet_1981; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; metmom; Elsie; boatbums
Mary was the mother of Jesus. She was also the mother of at least 6 other children, because they did the evil deed (sex) 👍 Her son James, the half brother of Jesus, was the head of the Jerusalem church. Peter was NOT. He wrote the book of James. Another half brother of Jesus, Jude, wrote the book of Jude.
Elsie told me about 4 billion times, not to exaggerate, but hasnt this been explained to you about 47 trillion times? My opinion is, your handling of scripture, is less than satisfactory. 👎
Using your logic, since the sun rises, after the rooster crows, ergo, the rooster causes the sun to rise. Obviously, I totally disagree with your interpretation of scripture, even though I thought you needed a priest to interpret scripture for you. Thats what I was told, when I was a catholic, many decades ago. 😇
AF_vet_1967-1987
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:39:02 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Mark17
I find it strange when a modern faith community claims to be Bible based and ignores the scriptures for its own cultural traditions. As much as the Samaritans claimed to be genuine and follow the scriptures, they were not. Salvation is of the Jews, not the Samaritans. The Samaritans came later, after the rebellion of the Northern Kingdom against Judah, and after their lineage was mixed with the Gentiles resettled in the land by the Assyrians.
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posted on
12/20/2018 9:48:46 PM PST
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af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: af_vet_1981; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; boatbums; metmom; Elsie; Luircin
No one is ignoring the scriptures, bro. I just disagree with 90% of your interpretations of scripture, thats all. Besides that, when I was a catholic, many decades ago, I was always told, that if I was going to read the Bible, I needed a priest to interpret scripture for me. Did you do that, or are you relying on your own personal interpretation of scripture?
And another thing, would I be correct in assuming you have no assurance of salvation? If you dont, then I feel sorry for you. Assurance of salvation, is a beautiful thing. I know, since I have it.
Now, I think I will go read the Book of James, and the book of Jude. You know, the half brothers of Jesus, the natural sons of Mary and Joseph. I am sure it doesnt take a brain surgeon, to figure out how all those other children of Mary and Joseph came along. Hint: it wasnt the stork that brought them. 😁 Now, go and rightly divide the Word of Truth. 👍 Then maybe you can get assurance of salvation, though I cannot figure out why you dont want it. 🤔🤗🙄
I know I have said it before, I will say it again. There really isnt any intelligent reason, to discuss this with you any further. I hope you make it to Heaven. I am not relying on hope. I am relying on SETTLED assurance. 👍
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posted on
12/21/2018 2:25:08 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: af_vet_1981
The scriptures testify...
In the beginning was the Word... John 1:1
Let US create man in OUR image... Genesis 1:26
All things were made by him... John 1:3
For by him were all things created... Colossians 1:16
...yes they do!!
That Jesus has ALWAYS been.
That Mary was to be the human that supplied His fleshly body.
That the phrase "mother of GOD" is NOT found in it's pages.
That Rome has invented a multitude of fawning descriptors of 'Mary', for NONE are found amoungst it's pages.
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:23:05 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
That Mary was to be the human that supplied His fleshly body.
The word incarnation means the act of being made flesh. It comes from the Latin version of John 1:14, which in English reads, The Word became flesh ...
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:26:43 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
I find it strange when a modern faith community claims to be Bible based and ignores the scriptures for its own cultural traditions.Folks; you just CANNOT make this stuff up!!
Call no man father...
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:29:14 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
I find it hypocritical when an ancient faith community claims that its own cultural traditions and ‘explanations’ trump the scriptures.
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:31:22 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
That Rome has invented a multitude of fawning descriptors of 'Mary', for NONE are found amoungst it's pages.
Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
The way Rome teaches it:
Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a....
Co-Redemptrix,
Ark of the Covenant,
Beloved daughter of the Father,
Favoured Daughter of the Father,
Cause of Our Joy,
Cause of our Salvation ,
Comfort of the Afflicted,
Destroyer of Heresy,
Ever-virgin ,
Gate of Heaven,
God-bearer,
Great Mother,
Health of the Sick,
Heavenly Chariot,
Help of Christians,
Holy Mary,
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of Virgins,
House of Gold,
Joy of the Just,
Majesty,
Mirror of Justice,
Morning Star,
Most Holy,
Mother Admirable,
Mother Inviolate,
Mother Most Amiable,
Mother Most Chaste,
Mother Most Pure,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of Divine Grace,
Mother of God,
Mother of Good Counsel,
Mother of Mercy,
Mother of Orphans,
Mother of Our Creator,
Mother of Our Redeemer,
Mother of Sorrows,
Mother of the Church,
Mother of the Poor,
Mother of the Word,
Mother of the Word Incarnate,
Mother Thrice Admirable,
Mother Undefiled,
Mystical Rose,
Nova Eva (the New Eve),
Our Lady of Compassion,
Our Lady of Confidence,
Our Lady of Victory,
Our Lady, Star of the Sea,
Our Mother of Perpetual Help,
Queen Assumed Into Heaven,
Queen Conceived Without Original Sin,
Queen of All Saints,
Queen of Angels,
Queen of Apostles,
Queen of Confessors,
Queen of Families,
Queen of Heaven,
Queen of Martyrs,
Queen of Patriarchs,
Queen of Peace,
Queen of Prophets,
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary,
Queen of Virgins,
Ravisher of Hearts,
Refuge of Sinners,
Resplendant car,
Seat of Wisdom,
She Who Shows the Way,
Singular Vessel of Devotion,
Spiritual Vessel,
Spouse of the Holy Spirit,
Sovereign Mistress of the Angels,
Tabernacle of the Lord,
Temple of the Holy Spirit,
Temple of the Most Holy Trinity,
Throne of Wisdom,
Tower of David,
Tower of Ivory,
Treasure House of God's Graces,
Untier of Knots,
Vessel of Honor,
Virgin God-bearer,
Virgin Most Faithful,
Virgin Most Merciful,
Virgin Most Powerful,
Virgin Most Prudent,
Virgin Most Renowned,
Virgin Most Venerable
Virgin of virgins, born under the law, 5 to HELP redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship; sooner or later; and not spend TOO much time in Purgatory.
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:34:58 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:37:24 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Unfailing Novena To The Virgin Mary Untier of Knots
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posted on
12/21/2018 3:39:22 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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