Basilica della Santa Casa

The Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto ( Santuario Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto Pontificia ) is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in Loreto in the Italian brands. She is a papal basilica, an international sanctuary and the cathedral of the Territorialprälatur Loreto.

Santa Casa

The Santa Casa di Loreto ( Holy House of Loreto ) is the legend, the house in which Mary, Jesus' mother, grew up and where the angel announced to her the birth of Jesus. It is, with a figure- rich Renaissance paneling, in the Basilica, making them, as the goal of Loreto pilgrimage, the second most important pilgrimage place in Italy and one of the most important in the Catholic world.

The Holy House, which has only three walls should, with the fourth side fit exactly at the entrance to the grotto under the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. It was transported in the years 1291/1294 to Loreto perhaps from a merchant family Angeli ( "Angel "), from Nazareth. So the legend may have originated, that it had been brought there by angels. The name of the Litany of Loreto (or Litany of Loreto ) is derived from the name of the place. In the German -speaking world, there are numerous Loreto chapels, which are inspired by the Holy House of Loreto.

Basilica

The Holy House in Loreto was first built over a small church. 1468 began with the participation of the most important Italian architects and artists, the establishment of today's cross-shaped domed Basilica of the Nachgotik and the Renaissance. Pope Paul II, who was said to have been healed in 1464 when Cardinal in Loreto even if by a miracle, promoted the construction personally. With the representative facade, the church was completed in 1587. The 75 m high Campanile was added 1750-54. The western forecourt with a Baroque fountain frame two wings with double arcades.

The organ was in 1995 by the organ builder Mascioni. The instrument has 56 registers on three manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen are mechanical, the Registertrakturen are electric.

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