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Sisters of Loretto

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Loretto in Missouri
Pioneer efforts
In 1823 the Sisters of Loretto made their first foundation outside of Kentucky. It was located at the Barrens in Perry County, MO. Father Charles Nerinckx was working in this area when he fell ill and died in Ste. Genevieve, MO.

In 1847 the Sisters of Loretto arrived in Florissant, MO to resurrect a school for Indian girls that St. Rose Philippine Duchesne and her Religious of the Sacred Heart had been forced to abandon in 1846. The school came to be known as Loretto Academy. When it was destroyed by fire in 1919, it was home to seventy-five sisters and fifty girls, ages five to fifteen.

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