Italy Marche Province of Ancona Loreto Portal of the Basilica

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Italy Marche Province of Ancona Loreto Portal of the Basilica An ancient tradition recounts that the Holy House of Loreto il the same walled Chamber of Our Lady that had existed in Nazareth, in Galilea, in wich Mary was born, was brought up and received the angelic annunciation. This tradition, based on devotion and popular credence, ascribed the transportation of the House of Nazareth to an angelic mission, while recent studies, reading the tradition as were "between the lines"have put forward the hypotesis of a transportation devised by human agency, by sea, with special assistance from above.

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Location: Italy Marche Province of Ancona Loreto
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