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The miraculous flying house of Loreto : spreading Catholicism in the early modern world
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ISBN: 9780691174006 0691174008 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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In 1295, a house fell from the evening sky onto an Italian coastal road by the Adriatic Sea. Inside, awestruck locals encountered the Virgin Mary, who explained that this humble mud-brick structure was her original residence newly arrived from Nazareth. To keep it from the hands of Muslim invaders, angels had flown it to Loreto, stopping three times along the way. This story of the house of Loreto has been read as an allegory of how Catholicism spread peacefully around the world by dropping miraculously from the heavens. In this book, Karin Vélez calls that interpretation into question by examining historical accounts of the movement of the Holy House across the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century and the Atlantic in the seventeenth century. These records indicate vast and voluntary involvement in the project of formulating a branch of Catholic devotion. Vélez surveys the efforts of European Jesuits, Slavic migrants, and indigenous peoples in Baja California, Canada, and Peru. These individuals contributed to the expansion of Catholicism by acting as unofficial authors, inadvertent pilgrims, unlicensed architects, unacknowledged artists, and unsolicited cataloguers of Loreto. Their participation in portaging Mary’s house challenges traditional views of Christianity as a prepackaged European export, and instead suggests that Christianity is the cumulative product of thousands of self-appointed editors. Vélez also demonstrates how miracle narratives can be treated seriously as historical sources that preserve traces of real events. Drawing on rich archival materials, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto illustrates how global Catholicism proliferated through independent initiatives of untrained laymen.

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248.159.4 <45 LORETO> --- 248.159.4 <45 LORETO> Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand--Italië--LORETO --- Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand--Italië--LORETO --- Mary, --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Majka Isusova --- Shrines --- Apparitions and miracles. --- Catholic Church --- Santa Casa (Loreto, Italy) --- Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto. --- Holy House of the Blessed Virgin (Loreto, Italy) --- Holy House of Loreto (Loreto, Italy) --- Loreto, Italy. --- Santa Casa di Loreto --- History. --- Loreto (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- 266 <7> --- 266 <7> Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Noord-Amerika. Midden-Amerika --- 266 <7> Missions. Evangelisation--Noord-Amerika. Midden-Amerika --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Noord-Amerika. Midden-Amerika --- Missions. Evangelisation--Noord-Amerika. Midden-Amerika --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria, --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Loreto --- Santa casa --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint - Shrines - Italy - Loreto. --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint - Apparitions and miracles. --- Loreto (Italy) - Buildings, structures, etc. --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint

Why have you come here? : the Jesuits and the first evangelization of Native America
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ISBN: 0195308018 9780195308013 1435619161 1281163368 0198042086 9786611163365 9780195307566 0195307569 0199784930 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This book tells the story of how the 16th-century religious conquerors of America attempted to change the belief systems of the Native Americans. To what degree did they succeed or fail? And why? The European protagonists and frontline representatives of the new religion in the spiritual struggles were the Jesuits (members of the Society of Jesus) who, although latecomers to America, soon became the most vocal and visible spokespersons. Invasion and military power are nothing new to minority societies. But how did they handle the waves of spiritual conquerors that came ashore in the 16th century? “Why have you come here?” are the words of a Florida Indian chief to a Jesuit missionary. The reply enlightens and at the same time demonstrates the renaissance certainty of the Europeans. From their first encounters with the Indians of La Florida, through Mexico, New France, the Paraguay Reductions, Andean Peru, to contact with Native Americans in pre-revolutionary Maryland, the Jesuits were ubiquitous in North and South America, with missions, preaching, and public theater, with the goal of changing what the Native American thought about God. Drawing on an abundance of primary material, the book also integrates the latest in published scholarship. The Jesuit Archives of Rome, the Archivo de Indias, Seville, besides those in Madrid and South America, have been tapped to throw light on the spiritual conquest of America.


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The death and afterlife of the North American martyrs
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ISBN: 9780674051188 0674051181 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press

Kino : a legacy : his life, his works, his missions, his monuments.
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ISBN: 096615620X 9780966156201 Year: 1998 Publisher: Tucson Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona

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