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Published by El Paso Inc, Sept 15, 2024 Loretto Academy will soon own the 19 acres its 100-year-old campus calls home. … Sisters of Loretto president, Sister Barbara Nicholas, and…
Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Eleanor Craig SL A letter from President Barbara Nicholas SL Is this how it is with you? We are entering the season…
This year Nerinx Hall High School celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by Loretto. The school also celebrated the 212th year of Loretto’s own founding on April 25. The…
A visit to the Tharparkar desert area in the Sindh region of Pakistan reveals scenes of hardship and poverty. Malnutrition, disease, lack of education and child labor are common. Debt…
In this 1961 photograph, taken in the museum at Loretto Motherhouse, Antonina Ryan SL shows an old spinning wheel to Marian Wheatley Medley, daughter of Carl Wheatley, Loretto’s farm manager.…
On June 1, students from Loretto-associated schools — Loretto Academy in El Paso, Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis and St. Mary’s Academy in Denver — arrived to spend…
In addition to the Seeking Home procession in June and an important Assembly, this summer saw Loretto visitors engaging in numerous family activities. These included Family Fun Day, the Heritage…
A dad and his two daughters, ages 11 and 14, living a short distance from Loretto Motherhouse were hauling water to their home month after month. Judy Popp SL, who…
From “Mostly for Promise: Poems by Cecily Jones SL,” published 2013 Reflections of Isabella Clarke on the Sisters’ Transfer from Little Loretto to St. Stephen’s Farm, November 1824 After the…
In 1824, the Sisters of Loretto were forced to move from their home of the past 12 years to the current location of the Loretto Motherhouse 9 miles up the…
I grew up on a small farm in rural Central Kentucky near the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse. The area is also known as Kentucky’s Holy Land. Before I entered Loretto…
