/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Santa Casa (Italian, the holy house)
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The reputed house in which the Virgin Mary lived at Nazareth, miraculously translated to Fiume, in Dalmatia, in 1291, thence to Recanaʹti in 1294, and finally to Maceraʹta, in Italy, to a piece of land belonging to the Lady Loretto.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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