Case file · Apparition / miracle
The Holy House at Trsat
According to legend, in May 1291 the house of the Virgin Mary from Nazareth appeared on the hill of Trsat above Rijeka, carried by angels, before vanishing and reappearing at Loreto in Italy.
1291 CE · 45.33, 14.46 · status: legend
The account
The Frankopan princes built a shrine where it had stood, and Croatian pilgrims kept the tradition; Pope Urban V is said to have sent a painting of the Virgin in 1367. One rationalising version says Crusaders or a family named Angeli shipped the stones from the Holy Land.
The sceptical view
Historians trace the Loreto legend to the late 15th century; there is no contemporary record of a house appearing at Trsat.