House of the Virgin Mary
This house was discovered in 1881 based on the descriptions of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich, a bedridden German nun who had never left her own country. Among other visions of the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, Bl. Emmerich described the land around the house where the Virgin Mary may have spent her final years before her Assumption into heaven. The Catholic Church has not issued an opinion on the veracity of the house, but several popes have conveyed blessings and visited the site....