Post by American Academy of Religion

Karin Vélez, author of The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World, explains how the 12th century myth of the flying house of Loreto, which tells the story of the home of the Virgin Mary flew away from the Holy Land and settled on the coastal town of Loreto, Italy, served as narrative grounding for the expansion of Catholicism through varied, voluntary, independent devotional movements across the world. http://ow.ly/KPT650CTicD Princeton University Press