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Extract from the Loreto Travel Guides:
One of Italy's most popular sites of pilgrimage, attracting four million visitors every year,
LORETO
owes its existence to one of the Catholic Church's more surreal legends. The story goes that in 1292, when the Muslims kicked the Crusaders out of Palestine, a band of angels flew the
house of Mary
from Nazareth to Dalmatia, and then, a few years later, whisked it across the Adriatic to Loreto. In the face of growing scepticism, the Vatican came up with the more plausible story that the Holy House was transported to Loreto on board a Crusader ship. Not surprisingly, though, this theory doesn't seem to have the same ho...
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