Today’s Angelus and Rosary was broadcasted from the Holy House!
Follow along these beautiful Marian prayers, but also gaze at the beautiful walls that was home to Mary and the wall in which the Annunciation took place – where the Word was made Flesh.
https://youtu.be/D8AsE2X-Qdw?si=w5rPtbFxQQTngTTv
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY, WV!

The story of the Holy House has been shared in the FaithInWV e-bulletin several times and also here on Facebook.

From an archived December 2021 issue of FaithInWV written for you:

Mystery of the Holy House: (Dec. 10th) is the optional memorial of Our Lady of Loreto – the feast of the Holy House.
Tradition says Mary’s home from the first century was transported from Nazareth to Loreto, Italy in the latter part of the 13th century. There are two theories of how it took place, but first understand these details. The house consisted of three stone walls that were built up against a grotto, which typical for the time was carved into the mountainside. The grotto in the homes of the period were used for storage. It was the three walls that were transported. How they got to their present location in Loreto, Italy is a mystery that historians still argue. The grotto remains intact in Nazareth, and it is protected within the walls of the Basilica of the Annunciation.
The three walls of Mary’s home are within the Basilica della Santa Casa (Basilica of the Holy House), in Loreto.
The first theory of how the walls of Mary’s home were moved from Nazareth is supernatural. The ancient legend has it that on the night of May 9-10, 1291, the house was moved from Nazareth to Croatia. It remained there three years before the angels moved it again to Italy first by the sea, second in the woods, and third to its spot on a hilltop that was once covered in a field of laurel trees owned by a woman named Loreta. The location is now known as the city of Loreto. The final move was the night between Dec. 9-10, 1294.
The modern interpretation by Vatican archivist involved documents found dated to coincide with the move. They indicate the walls were actually moved by crusaders during the Christian Crusades of the time, when Judeo-Christians were fleeing from Palestine. It is believed a wealthy family named Angelos or Angeli financed the move of the house to a papal state in Italy.
Whichever you are inclined to believe saints, blessed, and popes have said divine intervention must have happened in order for the three walls of the home to safely transported and in the dark of night, disappearing from its original foundation.
Archeologists have confirmed that the carved stones in the Holy House are indeed from Nazareth and the time of Christ. Further the cut of the stone is that of Palestine nature. Markings in the house match markings inside the grotto in Nazareth.
Inside the house is a Latin inscription, “Here the word became Flesh,” for it is believed that the incarnation took place within those walls. Imagine young Mary gazing upon Angel Gabriel as she gave her “yes” to God.
This Marian sanctuary has been a place of prayer and reflection for millions of pilgrims, including many saints and popes throughout the last 700 years. All of them wanting to see the walls of the home Mary was born and lived; and where Jesus and Joseph also called home.
The basilica built around the Holy House is a tremendous masterpiece of Italian Renaissance, a drastic contrast to the simplicity of the dark and aged walls that form the house.
Another element of the house is the ancient altar of the apostles, where the disciples are believed to have gathered with Mary immediately after the Resurrection.
In 2019, Pope Francis made a decree noting that the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto, “recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all those who visit it to consider ‘the fullness of time’, when God sent his Son, born of a woman, as well as to meditate both on the words of the Angel announcing the Good News and on the words of the Virgin in response to the divine call.”
The Holy Father hopes the celebration of the optional feast of Our Lady of Loreto “will help all people, especially families, youth and religious to imitate the virtues of that perfect disciple of the Gospel, the Virgin Mother, who, in conceiving the Head of the Church also accepted us as her own.”