On the road with Loretto as we explore our roots!
Posted on January 15, 2025, by Loretto Community

Photo courtesy of Neil Tucker
Loretto members Karel Disponett, Neil Tucker, Julie Popham and Eleanor Craig set out this past September from the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky., for a weeklong expedition eastward to explore Loretto roots in Maryland.
Another Loretto Roots journey is being planned for late spring or early summer 2025. The focus will be early Loretto in Missouri along the Mississippi River. Leaving the Motherhouse, the first stops will be Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., and New Madrid, Mo., sites of the 1811-12 earthquake which shook up Loretto’s earliest members at the very beginning of the Little Society of the Friends of Mary Beneath the Cross of Jesus. Imagine receiving the habit as aftershocks shook the ground beneath your feet!
Follow along with Loretto on our Facebook page this week as we share some of Eleanor’s insights from the Maryland roots trip and look forward to this year’s adventure!