This article reconstructs the history of the Illyrian confraternity in Loreto and explains the connection between the legend of the Holy House and the Schiavoni. Images related to the confraternity and the Illyrian College before and after the Catholic Reformation are used to explain how the Shrine of the Holy House was an element of connection between the people of the Adriatic region.

1. Confraternitas
2. Early Modern
3. medieval

Original publication: Coltrinari, Francesca. “Loreto as an Illyrian Shrine: The Artistic Heritage of the Illyrian Confraternities and College in Loreto and Recanati.” Confraternitas 27 (1-2): 2017. 46-61. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v27i1-2.28224. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.