A FAMOUS SHRINE
DESTROYED BY FffiE.
(Vmtiti PRESS ASSOCIATIOK.—COPTRIOHT.) (AUIiRAtIAN - N«W ZfiAliANB CAMS ASSeOIAtiON. ' ROME, 23rd February.
I'elegtams from Loreto andAncona report that the famous sanctuary at Loreto lias been burned. The convent, with priceless relics and paintings of the Virgin, has been destined. The material damage amounts to many, millions of lire. . ■ : '■'■■
[The Chiesa delta Santa Casft at Loreto was a beautiful lite-pointed, building of 1465 with a Renaissance marble facade and three celebrated bronze, doors .bearing' Old. and New Testatment reliefs. The three-aisled interior . enclosed beneath the central dome the Santa 'Gas* (or Holy House), a. famous pilgrimage shrine, reputed io be the Veritable'■house' of the Virgin, transported by angels'.froffi Nazareth and miraculously set down in Italy on 10th December, 1294.] •■■.-.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 6
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123A FAMOUS SHRINE Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 6
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