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Ecclesiastical: Loretto

The story of the holy House of Loretto is engraved on brass in several languages upon the walls of the church at Loretto. Among others, there are two tablets with the story in English, headed, "The wondrus flittinge of the kirk of our blest Lady of Laureto." It commences by stating that this kirk is the chamber of the House of the Blessed Virgin, in Nazareth, where our Saviour was born; that after the Ascension, the Apostles hallowed and made it a kirk, and St. Luke "framed a pictur to her vary liknes thair zit to be seine;" that it was "haunted with muckle devotione by the folke of the land whar it stud, till the people went after the erreur of Mahomet," etc.

M. de Coulanges mentions that at Loretto he saw a golden heart set with diamonds, presented by Queen Henrietta Maria. "En l'ouvrant on voyoit cette princesse a genoux, qui presentoit le coeur du roi a la Sainte Vierge, avec ces mots, quo charius, eo libentias."