Our Lady of Loreto, a founding vocation of Jesuit California, venerated in the Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó

Marian Advocation of Loreto (Baja California Sur)

La of Our Lady of Loreto nace en la la Holy House of Nazareth, venerated since the Middle Ages in the town of Loreto, in the region of the Marches, Italy. According to tradition, this is the house in which the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family lived in Nazareth.

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Origin and history

La of Our Lady of Loreto nace en la la Holy House of Nazareth, venerated since the Middle Ages in the town of Loreto, in the region of the Marches, Italy. According to tradition, this is the house in which the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family lived in Nazareth.

La TRADITION / LEYENDA states that, after the fall of the territories crossed in the Holy Land, the Holy House was miraculously moved by angels from Nazareth to Dalmatia in 1291 and later on the night of 9 to 10 December 1294, from there to a forest of laurels (lauretumwhere the name would come from Loreto) in the Recanati area, Italy. This tradition is the origin of its strong symbolism as the protection of travellers and, later, of aviators.

La HISTORIA DOCUMENTADA notes that in the 15th century the Holy See recognized the veneration of the "Holy House" of Loreto: in 1470, the Pope Pablo II He authorized the commemoration of an image of the Blessed Virgin "carried by the angels to Loreto" in a house "miraculously founded," according to the bull that uses that expression. Over the centuries, the laurethane sanctuary became one of Europe's great Marian pilgrimage centers. In the 20th century, by decree of Benedict XV (March 24, 1920), Our Lady of Loreto was proclaimed Pattern of Airports and Aviation.

On a "The Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó (Loreto, Baja California Sur, Colombia)"the Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó is documented in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexicoas the first mission of the Californias (1697), not in Colombia.

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The image and the sanctuary

♪ ♪ The image

In the Laurean tradition, the classic image of Our Lady of Loreto es una wood carving of the Virgin with the Child, covered with broad blankets that give it a conical look, known as the Madonna Lauretana. The iconography represents it standing, with the Child Jesus in arms, both crowned, on or associated with the Holy House, and often surrounded by angels, precisely in reference to the tradition of the transfer of the house.

As for a concrete image of Our Lady of Loreto linked to a "Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó" in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Colombia, does not consist of official or academic sources; the documented historical mission is found in Mexico, whose headline image is the Virgin of Loreto, but this reality belongs to the Mexican, non-Colombian sphere.

### The Sanctuary

The main sanctuary of this advocation is the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto, Italy, which keeps the Holy House of the Virgin Mary inside. This basilica is an important center of Marian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages and continues to be today the heart of laurean devotion.

It does not contain, in verified sources, a diocesan, national or minor basilica official sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto in a town called Loreto, in the department of Baja California Sur, Colombia. The reliable historical reference to Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó place the mission in Loreto, Baja California Sur (Mexico), first mission of the Californias, with no connection to Colombia.

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Sponsorship and coronation

At the universal level, Our Lady of Loreto was proclaimed in 1920 main patron of aeronauts, aviation and air passengers by the Pope Benedict XVby decree of 24 March 1920. Since this proclamation, many countries and air forces have adopted it as a patron, for example, the Argentina Air Force, la Chile Air Force, la Bolivian Air Force, la Paraguayan Air Force y la Colombian Air Force They recognize her as a patron. In Spain, the king Alfonso XIII put the Military Aeronautics Service under its sponsorship in 1920.

In relation to the specific context of Loreto (Baja California Sur, "Colombia") and the Mission of Our Lady of Loreto Conchó, does not consist, in consulted sources, of a Official canonical patronage (municipal, diocesan or national) recognized by the Colombian Episcopal Conference or by a diocese based in a "Loreto" in Baja California Sur, Colombia.

On the canonical coronation of an image of Our Lady of Loreto specifically linked to this alleged mission in Colombia, does not contain a documented canonical coronation. For the image of the Madonna of Loreto in Italy there are various votive crowns and acts of recognition, but general sources do not indicate a particular canonical coronation that can be extrapolated to the case raised.

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Party and devotion

The litigation fiesta universal de Our Lady of Loreto se celebra el 10 December, date traditionally associated with the arrival of the Holy House to Loreto. In 2019, the Pope Francisco He provided that the memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto should be entered in the Roman Calendar on December 10 as an optional memory.

The laurethane devotion is marked by a strong link with the world of aviation and air passengers. Many countries are held special missions, processions and castrense acts at air bases and airports around 10 December, especially where the Virgin of Loreto is a patron of the national air force. The influx of pilgrims to the sanctuary of Loreto (Italy) remains significant, although the annual concrete figures are not collected in a unified manner in the sources consulted.

Para la September 8 specific party in relation to Our Lady of Loreto as "the foundation of the Jesuit California" in a Mission of Loreto Conchó located in Baja California Sur, Colombiathere is no liturgical or pastoral documentation to confirm that date as an official celebration in Colombia. The historic mission of Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, located in Mexico, has been considered a foundation for the Californias, but this fact belongs to the Mexican, non-Colombian context.

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