 During its early history it often lost and regained its episcopal status due to Papal politics.On 27 July 1263 the diocese was completely suppressed by Pope Urban IV in the Bull "Cives Recanatensis", due to its support of Manfred, who claimed the Kingdom of Sicily.Pope Sixtus V was greatly devoted to the cult of the Virgin Mary and the Holy House of Loreto, purported to be the house in Nazareth in which the Virgin Mary was born or lived, and which was transported by angels to Tersatto, Croatia, in 1291.