Excerpt from The Holy House of Loretto: A Critical Study of Documents and Traditions

On the Feast of the Visitation, July 2, 1884, I set eyes for the first time on Loreto and its Holy House. I had been ordained priest a few months before, and was on my way home. Loreto drew me to itself, as it has drawn so many, as it drew the illustrious Newman under circumstances similar to my own, in the late forties of the same century. I believed in the miraculous translation of the Holy House with the faith of a little child. Had I been asked to give a reason for my faith, I fancy I should have given the same that Newman does: "Everybody in Rome believes it, " and the whole Catholic world has believed it for hundreds of years.

On the first appearance of Canon Chevalier's Notre Dame de Lorette, I procured a copy of it. We upholders of the old tradition had been threatened with the book at least two years before its publication.

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