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Cemeteries

Burial sites of Loretto members can be found at Loretto Motherhouse, Denver, El Paso, St. Louis and in many other locations in the United States and beyond. Not only are the graves honored through perpetual care, but through a perpetual remembrance in the hearts of all members and all who love Loretto.

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September tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

By Loretto Community / August 5, 2026 / Comments Off on September tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

Learn about the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery Join Susan Classen, Loretto Woods Coordinator, on Saturday, September 19, 11 am to 12 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods Natural…

August tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

By Loretto Community / August 5, 2026 / Comments Off on August tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

Learn about the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery Join Susan Classen, Loretto Woods Coordinator, on Thursday, August 20, 1 pm to 2 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods Natural…

Tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

By Loretto Community / June 22, 2026 / Comments Off on Tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery – Information and RSVP form

Learn about the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery Join Susan Classen, Loretto Woods Coordinator, on Friday, July 24, 11 am to 12 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods Natural…

Bellarmine students use classroom skills to locate and mark graves of Black Catholics

By Loretto Community / April 30, 2026 /

Posted by The Record, April 22, 2026 Bellarmine University students studying geographic information systems last fall mapped and marked the graves of Black Catholics buried in the Archdiocese of Louisville’s…

Tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery

By Loretto Community / April 14, 2026 / Comments Off on Tour of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery

Learn about the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery Join Susan Classen, Loretto Woods Coordinator, on Saturday, May 9 from 11 am to 12 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods…

Holy Ground: Cemeteries of Loretto

By Loretto Community / November 10, 2025 /

The cemeteries of the Sisters of Loretto are indeed holy ground. Loretto members  and others rest in the sacred earth God has given us. God loves each soul whose final…

The Sisters of Loretto Share a Kinship With the Earth

By Loretto Community / November 14, 2022 /

An anthropologist looks to a religious community of women in rural Kentucky for scientifically informed lessons in land stewardship. Could they be a model for activists and policymakers to move…

Sing Alleluia to Our God!: Loretto Natural Burial Practices

By Loretto Community / November 7, 2022 /

Gain souls, draw souls, court souls, shelter souls. I Am the Way, the Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto,p. 2 What is a green, or natural, burial?  A green or…

The church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials?

By Loretto Community / October 17, 2022 /

Published by America Magazine Oct. 13, 2022. “So is there a way for Catholics to honor the sacredness of the body in a conservation burial that also honors the sacredness…

St. Mary’s and Loretto Heights Sisters Moved to Mt. Olivet Cemetery

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / October 1, 2022 /

M. Josefina Ortiz (1861-1896) was the first sister to be buried in the Loretto Heights Convent Cemetery, in Feb. 1896. Rita Therese DuBor (1909-1969) was the last to be buried,…

‘Operation Sacred Rescue’: Remains of 62 Loretto Sisters from Loretto Heights Cemetery Reinterred

By Loretto Community / August 24, 2022 /

“I just needed to tell you how truly reverent, respectful and joyful was the relocation ceremony of the good sisters at Mt. Olivet. Many more people will visit Mt. Olivet…

Bringing Sisters Back Together: Loretto Begins Exhumation of Sisters Buried in Loretto Heights Cemetery

By Loretto Community / July 6, 2022 /

Five years ago, with the announcement of the pending sale of the Loretto Heights campus, Loretto began prayerful and thoughtful research into how the Community could best ensure the perpetual…