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Just got back from a pilgrimage to Italy (so we won't be joining The Pillar's) where we visited the Holy House of Loreto. While there we heard a very reasonable explanation of how a portion of Mary's home in Nazareth came to be there. The story we heard is also found in this article from the National Catholic Register. ncregister.com/blog/the…
Just got back from a pilgrimage to Italy (so we won't be joining The Pillar's) where we visited the Holy House of Loreto. While there we heard a very reasonable explanation of how a portion of Mary's home in Nazareth came to be there. The story we heard is also found in this article from the National Catholic Register. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-holy-house-of-loreto-italy. Basically, the Angeli family, not angels, moved 3 walls of her domicile (the 4th wall being the back of the cave found in the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth), stone by stone, from the Levant, eventually to the Italian peninsula, at the end of the time of the Crusader kingdoms there.