medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 06:41 PM 9/27/2002 +0100, Brenda Cook wrote:
>What about Our Lady of Walsingham ? Henry, in
>grateful humility (Yes! - ) walked barefoot from the Slipper Chapel to the
>replica of the Holy House of Nazareth to give thanks.
And what about the replica's "model", the Casa Santa at Loreto (near
Recanati)? In operation there since 1294, this center of Marian devotion
was throughout the later Middle Ages and beyond a major pilgrimage
destination. Sometimes referred to as the "Jerusalem of the poor" (because
it could substitute for an expensive trip to the Holy Land), it was open to
aristocrats as well. Floriano Grimaldi devotes 34 pages (pp. 420-53) of
his recent _Pellegrini e pellegrinaggi a Loreto nei secoli XIV-XVIII
(Foligno, 2001; _Bollettino Storico della Citta di Foligno_, suppl. no. 2)
to visits by sovereigns and other lords and ladies. His examples start in
the fifteenth century (large, organised pilgrimages to Loreto seemingly
started in the late 1390s and at some point in the 1400s Loreto got added
to the _Mirabilia urbis Romae_, which, one supposes, will have increased
its visibility). But Italians at least (and probably Dalmatians as well)
were travelling thither as early as the thirteenth century. And some of
these will surely have been aristocrats, and some will have shared Henry's
motivation. Best again, John Dillon
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