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20 Euro - Franciscus Pontifical Shrine of the House of Loreto
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 20 Euros |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANCISCVS PP. ANNO IVBILAEI MISERICORDIAE MMXVI · MISERANDO ATQUE ELIGENDO |
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| Reverse lettering | CITTA' DEL VATICANO · 20 EURO · R |
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The Holy House of Loreto — a stone structure venerated as the dwelling of the Virgin Mary from Nazareth — has been a pilgrimage destination since the late 13th century, when it was reportedly transported to the Italian Adriatic coast. The translocation story, almost certainly a pious legend obscuring a more prosaic physical dismantling and reconstruction by the Angeli family of Epirus, did nothing to diminish its draw; by the 16th century, Loreto ranked among the most visited shrines in Christendom.
Francis formally designated the site a pontifical shrine in 2019 — three years after this coin's issue, which anticipated or accompanied the renewed institutional attention he was directing toward Marian pilgrimage sites.