We
know (especially through the visions of Blessed Anne Catherine
Emmerich, vol. 3) that before being transported by angels to Loreto in
Italy, as well as to Ephesus in Turkey, the House of Mary probably
stopped in Dalmatia:
"Let us
place ourselves in the context. In the last years of the 13th century,
the Christian lost the Holy Land... The terrible news caused deep
sadness throughout the Western world. Simultaneously, a sensational
rumor spread: the house of Nazareth, where the Virgin Mary received the
Annunciation of the conception of Christ, was transported by angels to
Mount Rainuza in Dalmatia on the Croatian coast! Indeed some surprised
residents had noticed a new building standing there, devoid of
foundations...
Three
years later, in December 1294, the house disappeared to the general
disappointment of the locals. The next morning, the people of Recanati
(now Loreto), near Ancona on the Adriatic coast of Italy, in turn
discovered a strange house of unusual appearance. The people asserted
that it was the house that had disappeared from Dalmatian soil... "
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