The House of the Virgin Mary

Come to know the house of the Virgin Mary which, according to numberless saints, scores of popes, and many official documents of the Vatican (and to protect it from the depredations of the Saracens) was in the late 1200s miraculously transported from Mary's village of Nazareth to a hillside in Italy. In this house, the Virgin Mary herself was born, she was saluted by the angel Gabriel, and Jesus himself became flesh. There he spent the first twelve years of his life. Rev. G.E. Phillips' book, The House of the Virgin Mary, is the comprehensive tale of the Holy House in Nazareth, and its miraculous transport to Loreto, Italy a delightful book that carefully lays out the evidence for the miracle and affords you detailed, convincing answers to those who have challenged it. You'll learn about: Its veneration in Nazareth before it mysteriously disappeared, leaving only its foundation Its sudden, miraculous appearance on a hillside in Italy, dismaying local residents How amazed Italians used exacting detective skills in Italy and later in Palestine to discover where the house had come from How believers have venerated Our Lady of Loreto and revered her Holy House for over 700 years now (shouldn't you, too?) The story of the fifteenth century erection of a magnificent basilica over the humble Holy House and the sixteenth century enclosing of the fragile structure in a grand marble encasement The cure in the Holy House of two Popes in succession (and the tale of many other miracles witnessed there) Among the evidence brought forth in this powerful book are: Scores of quotations from 13th century witnesses, and from hundreds of scholars and visitors in the seven centuries since then