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	Loreto is famous for being the seat of the Basilica of the Holy House, one of the oldest and most important Marian pilgrimage sites of the Catholic world.</div>
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	From the first centuries of the Christian era, the tradition stated that in Nazareth he was little of the Virgin residence, where she was born, where took place the announcement of the Archangel Gabriel and where he lived with Jesus and Joseph in the Holy Family. After the Resurrection, the Apostles would meet in this house and they celebrated the Eucharist as Jesus taught.</div>
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	At the beginning of May of 1291, Nazareth and all of Palestine were now the domain of the Turks; some angels then descended from heaven withdrew the Holy House and took her in flight.</div>
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	On 10 May 1291 the angels left the house on Trsat, near the city of Rijeka; They were lumberjacks, amazed, to find the small house. There, however, the pilgrims were often prey to thieves and criminals; so, three years and seven months later, the angels took up the house of Nazareth and with it flew up. They crossed the Adriatic and just arrived in the Marches placed her near Ancona, in the place where now stands the church of Santa Maria Liberator of Posatora, whose name tradition derives precisely from this event: laying-et-hours (stopped and pray).</div>
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	The Holy House stood in that place eight months; Then the angels lifted her up again and rested near Porto Recanati, in the &quot;Vane&quot;. This time it was the pastors to see a dazzling light out from the clouds and behind the light, the house. The place, however, was too close to the sea and therefore exposed to the dangers of the Turkish incursions; Furthermore there also were beginning to flock criminals to rob the faithful who came on pilgrimage. Eight months later the house was again moved by angels; the land on which was laid was owned by two brothers who soon began to take advantage of the pilgrims and then also to contend for the gains. Again the angels lifted in flight home and rested, during the night between 9 and 10 December 1294, in the middle of the road that goes from Recanati to its port, and thus in a public place, no one could complain and exploit. The site chosen was on top of a hill covered with laurels. From the Latin Laurus Lauretum the place was called, and then &quot;Loreto.&quot;</div>
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	The journey of the home in Nazareth to Loreto is called &quot;translation of the Holy House&quot; and this name is represented in the works of the artists of past centuries. In the Marche is alive the tradition of lighting bonfires (the focaracci) on the night between 9 and 10 December to &quot;illuminate the road to the Holy House&quot;; these are the fires of the night coming, meaning &quot;coming&quot; the arrival of the Holy House. In 1617, thanks to the initiative of the Capuchin friar Tommaso anconitano, the custom spread widely in all the Marche [8]. For this reason, in the Catholic calendar the feast of Our Lady of Loreto falls on December 10 and the Marches day is celebrated on the same day.</div>
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	The Madonna of Loreto is venerated as patron saint of aviators, in fact September 12, 1920 was held in Loreto the party for the proclamation of Our Lady of Loreto as &quot;Patron of aeronauts&quot;, decreed by Pope Benedict XV brief of March 24 of that year.</div>
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	Source: Wikipedia</div>
