There is a village inland from Ancona, Italy, where Christ's stable is
revered as arelic in the church. The same village is where Benjamino
Gigli had a large villa. What is it's name?

Hello.

The town is Loreto.


From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

"Santa Casa di Loreto...
Loreto is a small town a few miles south of Ancona and near the sea.
Its most conspicuous building is the basilica. This dome-crowned
edifice, which with its various annexes took more than a century to
build and adorn under the direction of many famous artists, serves
merely as the setting of a tiny cottage standing within the basilica
itself. Though the rough walls of the little building have been raised
in height and are cased externally in richly sculptured marble, the
interior measures only thirty-one feet by thirteen. An altar stands at
one end beneath a statue, blackened with age, of the Virgin Mother and
her Divine Infant. As the inscription, Hic Verbum caro factum est,
reminds us, this building is honoured by Christians as the veritable
cottage at Nazareth in which the Holy Family lived..."
source: NewAdvent.org
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13454b.htm

Here is official web site for the Santa Casa:
http://www.santuarioloreto.it/santa_casa.htm

Beniamino Gigli's villa is a couple kilometers away and is technically
in Porto Recanati.
http://www.geocities.com/leightonjenkins2000/villa.html

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search strategy:
"Beniamino Gigli's villa"
"porto recanati" gesu
"santa casa" loreto

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 17 Oct 2004 05:21 PDT

This map shows where Loreto is relative to Porto Recanati (they're
both in the lower right corner of the map):
http://en.conero.it/itinerari/image_itin/cartrecpic.jpg

The Benjamino Gigli Villa was used as hospital/convalescent home
during the war and I was there as a patient in 1944. I walked to the
Basilica of Loreto

Thank you for the tip.  What an interesting story!  Are you planning a return visit?