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award from Regis University, with mention of their founding 27 schools in Colorado, ten still in operation, including St. Mary’s Academy which bestowed the first high school diploma in the Colorado territory in 1875. In addition the Sisters founded 21 nonprofits in Colorado including Earthlinks,
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The Sisters gained a reputation for educational innovation, as well as racial and religious tolerance, which created a strong interest in having their services. By the 1890s they had opened a girls' school in
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novices, including Clare Morgan as a founding member in 1812, but they segregated many of them in various ways and most eventually were released from their vows. The order is also known to have owned slaves.
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that strives "to bring the healing Spirit of God into our world." Founded in the United States in 1812 and based in the rural community of
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In June 2005, the Loretto Community dedicated the Colorado affordable-housing community of Mount Loretto, built in collaboration with the
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The Sisters of Loretto were founded in 1812 by three women, Mary Rhodes, Ann Havern, and Christina Stuart, under the guidance of Fr
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in their missionary endeavors among the native Americans. The work of the Sisters spread to the
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updated the constitution of the Sisters of Loretto with Rome in the early 1900s.
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National Park Service "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Forms"
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Other works of the Loretto Community include the Loretto Earth Network, an
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The Loretto Community includes both vowed members and committed co-members.
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The Little Society of the Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross
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Catholic religious institutes established in the 19th century
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during the 1870s, as the Sisters opened a Loretto Academy in
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In recent years, the institute has diffused into a larger
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and in Bolivia, Chile, China, Ghana, Pakistan, and Peru.
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The Sisters of Loretto are sometimes confused with the
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Straw), Cook, Mary J. Straw (Mary Jean (2002-01-01).
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Loretto : the sisters and their Santa Fe chapel
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Loretto Community
Sisters of Loreto

Nerinx
Kentucky
Americas
Asia
Catholic
LorettoCommunity.org
Catholic religious institute
Nerinx, Kentucky
US states
Sisters of Loreto
Mother Teresa
Calcutta
Charles Nerinckx
Kentucky
Black
religious congregation
Mother Praxedes Carty
Sisters
Jesuits
American Southwest
Santa Fe, New Mexico
school chapel
Montgomery, AL
St. Paul, Kansas
Diocese of Wichita
Diocese of Kansas City
Missouri

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