Archive for January 2019
Displaying Loretto at the Chicago World’s Fair
By Susanna Pyatt Visitors to the Loretto Heritage Center may recall a display in the museum about the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The deep display case is designed to mimic…
Read MoreLoretto at the UN to Launch New Curriculum
Click here to read about Loretto at the UN’s launching of a new curriculum.
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Sister Bernice (formerly Sister Mary Alacoque) Hys SL
Sister Bernice Hys was born in St. Louis in 1930. Her parents, Andrew John Hys and Sophia Diminszyk Hys, were Polish émigrés who had settled on St. Louis’ near Northside not…
Read MorePaulette Peterson CoL
I grew up in a small town outside Chicago: Lemont, Ill. My mother was Roman Catholic and my father was Protestant. My sister, Elaine, is 10 years younger. I attended…
Read MoreMary Helen Sandoval CoL
I was born in Brainerd, Minn., the youngest of six children. In 1961, I went to Loretto Heights College. After graduating with a degree in math, with minors in education…
Read MoreSonja Earthman Novo CoL
I look back on my life and know that You were with me all the way. When the time came for my birth, daddy did not have money to pay…
Read MoreSusan Kenney CoL
I am blessed to have grown up in a small Wisconsin town surrounded by a loving family and neighbors. I attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and upon graduating began…
Read MoreJane German CoL
I grew up in a small town in rural Illinois, one of two children of older parents and grandparents. My father’s family were Catholics. All his family siblings married non-Catholics.…
Read MoreVicki Schwartz SL
St. Louis is my hometown, and I frequently return there to spend time with my nieces and their families. After attending elementary school at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and…
Read MoreMary Catherine Rabbitt SL
I was born in St. Louis in 1946, the third of four children born to Dan and Charlotte Rabbitt – and the only girl. I attended Immaculate Conception Grade School…
Read MoreCathy Mueller SL
My life has been filled with amazing experiences that have led me to be who I am now. I have taught high school, done pastoral work in multicultural parishes, led…
Read MoreMary Margaret Murphy SL, Vice President
Although I was born in Erie, Pa., I attended six different grade schools and lived in Kentucky, Ohio and Colorado. I met the Sisters of Loretto in Denver at Blessed…
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