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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B130610.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE MIRACVLOVS ORIGIN AND TRANSLATION OF THE CHVRCH OF OVR B. LADY OF LORETO.</HEAD>
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<P>_THE church of Loreto vvas a chamber of the hou&s;e of the B. Virgin nigh Hieru&s;ale~ in the citty of Nazareth, in vvhich &s;he vvs borne and bred, and &s;aluted by the Angel, and therin conceaued and brought vp her &s;onne IESVS to the age of xij yeares. This chamber, after the A&s;cen&s;ion of our B. Sauiour, vvas by the Apo&s;tles con&s;ecrated into a church in honour of our B. Lady; and S. Luke made a picture to her likenes, extant therin to be &s;een at this very day. It vvas frequented vvith great deuotion by the people of the country vvher it &s;tood, vvhil&s;t they vvere Catholicks; but vvhen, leauing the faith of Chri&s;t, they follovved the &s;ect of Mathomet, the Angels tooke it, and carrying it into Sclauonia; placed it by a tovvne called Flumen; vvhere not being had in due reuerence, they againe tran&s;ported it ouer &s;ea to a vvood in the territory of Recanati, belonging to a noble vvoman: called Loreta, from vvhom it fir&s;t tooke the name of our B. Lady of Loreto; and thence againe they carried it, by rea&s;on of the many robberies committed, to a mountain of tvvo brothers in the &s;aid territory; and from thence finally, in re&s;pect of their di&s;agreement about the guifts and offerings, to the common high-vvay not far di&s;tant, vvhere it novv remaines, vvithout foundation, famous for manie &s;ignes, graces, and miracles; vvherat the inhabitants of Recanati, vvho often came to &s;ee it, much wondring, enuironed it vvith a &s;trong and thick vvall; yet could no mantel, vvhence it came originally, til in the yeare M.CC.XC.VI. the B. Virgin appeared in &s;leep to a holie deuout man, to vvhom &s;he reuealed it, and he diuulged it to others of authority in this Prouince, vvho deter|mining forthvvith to try the truth of the vi&s;ion, re&s;olued to choo&s;e XVI. men of credit, vvho to that effect &s;hould go all togeather to the citty of Nazareth, as they did, carrying vvith them the mea&s;ure of this church; and comparing it there vvith the foun|dation yet remnant, they found them vvholy agreable, and in a vvall thereby ingrauen, that it had &s;tood there, and had left the place; vvhich donne, they pre&s;ently returning back, publi&s;hed the premi&s;&s;es to be true; and from that time forvvards, it hath byn certainly Knovvne, that this church vvas the chamber of the B. V. to vvhich Chri&s;tians begun then, and haue euer &s;ince had great deuotion, for that in it daily &s;he hath donne and doth many and many miracles. One Friar Paul de Silua, an Ermit of great &s;anctity vvho liued in a cottage nigh vnto this church, vvhither daily he vvent to Matins, &s;aid, that for ten yeares &s;pace, on the VIII. of September; tvvo hovvers before day, he &s;avv a light de&s;cend from heauen vpon it, vvhich he &s;ayd vvas the B. Virgin, vvho there &s;hevved her&s;elf on the fea&s;t of her Natiuity. In confirmation of all vvhich, tvvo vertuous men of the &s;aid citty of Recanati diuers times declared vnto me Prefect of Terreman and Gouernour of the fore&s;aid church, as follovveth: The one called Paul Renalduci, auouched, that his grandfathers grandfather, &s;avv vvhen the Angels brought it ouer &s;ea, and placed it in the forementioned vvood, and had often vi&s;ited it there; The other, called Francis Prior, in like &s;ort affirmed, that his grandfather being C.XX. yeares old, had al&s;o much frequented it in the &s;ame place; And for a further proof that it had byn there, he reported, that his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">randfathers grandfather had hou&s;e nigh vnto it, vvherin he dvvelt, and that in his time it vvas carried by the Angels from thence to the mountain of the tvvo brothers, vvhere they placed it as aboue&s;ayd.</P>
<CLOSER>To the honour of the euer-glorious Virgin.</CLOSER>
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<P>IN LORETO Per France&s;co Serafini. M.DC.XXXV. Con licenza de Superiori.</P>
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