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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.
November 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, November 14, 3 pm to 4 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and see…
October 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, October 15, 1 pm to 2 pm for a tour of the Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and see…
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 Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and see…
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 Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and see…
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 Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and see…
Bellarmine students use classroom skills to locate and mark graves of Black Catholics
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 St. Louis Cemetery. It was the latest step in an…
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 Natural Cemetery. Participants will learn more about natural burials and…
Holy Ground: Cemeteries of Loretto
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 mission is their journey into our Creator’s life. They are…
The Sisters of Loretto Share a Kinship With the Earth
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 beyond partisan approaches to climate change? Published by Sapiens Anthropology…
Sing Alleluia to Our God!: Loretto Natural Burial Practices
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 “natural” burial conserves natural resources, preserves the environment and honors…
The church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials?
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 of the land? The answer lies in a 200-plus-year-old community…
St. Mary’s and Loretto Heights Sisters Moved to Mt. Olivet Cemetery
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, in 1969. Ten of the 62 sisters had been first…