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Mario Sensi

Loreto, una chiesa «miraculose fundata»

PB pp. XVI-469 16 tavv. f. t., € 72,00

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2013
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978-88-8450-507-1
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978-88-9290-029-5
 
 

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Loreto has developed over time from a strictly local sanctuary into an international Marian sanctuary, today one of the most famous in the world. While it is not a site of recognized apparitions of Mary, the flow of pilgrims is constant: not the least of the reasons why this "memory site" continues to provide adequate answers in any season of the Spirit. The present volume is a collection of essays, written in different periods, in which the history of the foundation of the sanctuary put together by Pietro di Giorgio Tolomei, known as il Teramano, serves as the unifying theme. The text recounts that the "Domus lauretana", i.e. the primitive chapel incorporated into the new basilica, is the house of the Madonna, transported by angels from Nazareth to Loreto. The decoding of this story had become a source of scandal. New information on the stories of the foundation of sanctuaries suggested a different itinerary from that followed until now by those who have dealt with the so-called "Questione lauretana". In this regard, we can deduce from a series of historiographical approaches, that il Teramano's story derives from a conflict and a "mystical" reading of the simulacrum of Loreto and its "sacred space". The iconographic apparatus added at the end of the volume provides the unifying theme for a reading of the individual chapters, assembled with the intent to explicate the reasons for the constant flow of faithful to the sanctuary itself.
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