Our Blessed mother, Mary, was born in a small, three-walled house in Nazareth. It was in this house that the Archangel St. Gabriel announced the Incarnation. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem and presented to God at the temple, Mary St. Joseph and Jesus returned to Nazareth and lived in the same small house.

Today, those three walls sit, without a foundation, on an ancient public road in Loreto, Italy. One of the walls actually protrudes over a ditch. How it got there is described in the book, The Miracle of the Holy House of Loreto by Federico Catani. In summary, he explains that Mary's house was carried there by angels from Nazareth. Catani goes into specific detail about past rumors, and present facts, describing a miracle that Pope Saint John Paul II wrote is the "first sanctuary of international importance dedicated to the Virgin Mary and, for several centuries, the true Marian heart of Christianity."