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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.

Religious studies --- Sociology of religion --- Mary, --- Shrines --- Apparitions and miracles. --- Catholic Church --- Santa Casa (Loreto, Italy) --- History. --- Loreto (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Loreto --- Santa casa --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint

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"This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, but rather about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Illustrations such as these point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in French-speaking regions. This book examines in systematic fashion a large quantity of images, mostly unpublished, from the various types of texts devoted to Marian miracles. It then analyzes the depiction of their materiality and the animated miracles they perform, and traces their evolution from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in Old French through to the Burgundian court of the late Middle Ages."--

Illumination of books and manuscripts, French --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christianity and art --- Miracles in art --- Art and Christianity --- Art --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Church decoration and ornament --- French illumination of books and manuscripts --- History --- 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 --- Apparitions and miracles --- Devotion to --- 091.31 "12/14" --- 091.31 <44> --- 232.931 --- 232.931 Maria. Mariologie --- Maria. Mariologie --- 091.31 <44> Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- 091.31 "12/14" Verluchte handschriften--?"12/14" --- Verluchte handschriften--?"12/14" --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French. --- Miracles in art. --- History. --- 091:232.931 --- Symbolism in art --- 091:232.931 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Maria. Mariologie --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Maria. Mariologie --- Iconography --- iconography --- religious art --- depictions [visual works] --- miracles --- illuminated manuscripts --- Vignay, de, Jean --- Mielot, Jean --- Gautier de Coinci --- Mary [s.] --- anno 1200-1499 --- France --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria, --- Manuscripts, Medieval - France --- Christian art and symbolism - France - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Christianity and art - France - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Maria Deipara --- Iconographie --- Manuscrits enluminés --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint - Apparitions and miracles - Art --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint - Devotion to - France - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Madonna-beeld --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint