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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mysterious Staircase at Loretto Chapel The Loretto Academy was a school for women founded in Santa Fe in 1852 by the local Sisters of Loretto. However it came to be built, the solution to the problem at the Loretto Chapel was a winding staircase in the shape of a helix (which both takes up less space than a conventional stairway and is much more aesthetically appealing). Although the Loretto legend maintains that "engineers and scientists say that they cannot understand how this staircase can balance without any central support" and that by all rights it should have long since collapsed into a pile of rubble, none of that is the case. www.snopes.com /horrors/ghosts/loretto.asp   (1160 words)

City of Loretto, Tennessee: Homepage Loretto is a great place to live, work, raise a family, and enjoy life. We’d love to show you all Loretto has to offer. Loretto was founded in 1812 and originally called Glen Rock. www.ci.loretto.tn.us   (135 words)

Loretto Chapel Weddings The Loretto Chapel, built in 1878 and patterned after Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, is regarded as the first Gothic structure built West of the Mississippi. Legend has it that St. Joseph himself was the mysterious carpenter that answered the prayers of the Sisters of Loretto and built the "miraculous staircase." The Loretto Chapel, with its 150-year-old stained glass windows, vaulted ceilings, and Italian gothic altar, is the perfect setting for your wedding of a lifetime. The Loretto Chapel stands as a private museum and is open to all faiths. www.lorettochapel.com /weddings.html   (705 words)

University of St. Michael's College Loretto College is a residence for women at St. Michael’s College within the University of Toronto, where students are invited to participate fully in a Christian and academic community. Residents at Loretto College are able to use the St. Michael’s College facilities, such as student lounges, the John M. Kelly Library, St. Basil’s Church, the Writing and Math Aid Labs, counseling services and programs and activities of the St. Loretto College has comfortable common rooms outfitted with television and video equipment, exercise room, a large study hall, a conference room, a chapel, laundry facilities, and music practice rooms. www.utoronto.ca /stmikes/loretto   (539 words)

Mount Loretto Unique Area The majority of Mt. Loretto's 194 acres are in grassland (56%) and coastal marine (25%) habitats. Because the largest section of land is in grasslands, one of the main management goals at Mt. Loretto is to improve and maintain nesting habitat for grassland birds. Loretto's wetlands are low marshes in an open field and contain species such as sedges, rushes, bulrushes, red maple, willows, arrowwood, and highbush blueberry. www.dec.state.ny.us /website/reg2/loretto   (689 words)

Santa Fe hotels - Luxury Inn and Spa at Loretto, New Mexico hotel-resort, NM The Inn and Spa at Loretto's signature full-service spa, SpaTerre, is known as a refuge for renewal and luxury pampering. A visit to BALEENsantafe, the Inn and Spa at Loretto’s highly acclaimed signature restaurant, is an unforgettable pleasure for guests.  The Santa Fe restaurant features New Mexico inspired food using local and regional flavors, which may be enjoyed in the restaurant or on the stunning al fresco patio. The Inn and Spa at Loretto has been recognized in many prestigious industry publications with superior Santa Fe lodging and has been honored by some of the most elite hospitality and travel industry associations.  Click here to see all of our awards and accolades. www.innatloretto.com   (214 words)

Loretto Chapel Staircase; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer November 1998) The spiral stairway at Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an alleged miracle of construction. The Loretto legend begins with the founding of a school for females in Santa Fe in 1852. A combined day and boarding school, the Loretto Academy was established by the local Sisters of Loretto at the behest of Bishop John Lamy. www.csicop.org /si/9811/i-files.html   (1759 words)

Loretto - Home Loretto is a network of agencies committed to the mission of improving the quality of life for older adults in Central New York. Officials at Loretto's PACE CNY program were recently notified that Paul Heins, who serves as PACE CNY's director of rehabilitation services and is a resident of Onondaga Hill, was recognized for his extraordinary commitment, compassion and creativity by being named the recipient of the National PACE Association's 2007 Marie-Louise Ansak Award. Loretto Heritage Resident Kathleen Kelly Won't Be Slowed by Alzheimer's Disease www.loretto-cny.org   (416 words)

Loretto - Career Opportunities When you walk the halls of Loretto's facilities, you immediately understand that our most precious resource is our staff. Loretto is proud of the remarkable individuals who unselfishly give of themselves, every day, to serve your loved ones. E-mail us or mail your resume to Loretto, 700 Brighton Avenue, Syracuse, New York 13205 Attn: D.B. To e-mail your resume or to print an application, go to the "submit a resume" page of this section. www.loretto-cny.org /index.cfm?PageID=46   (250 words)

Loretto Hospital - About Us Loretto Hospital strives to be the healthcare provider of choice for the Austin Community. Loretto's medical staff consists of over 170 physicians, including primary care doctors (family practice, internal medicine, general practice) and specialists (pediatrics, podiatry, neurology, orthopaedics, surgery, psychiatry, radiology, pathology, gynecology, opthalmology, and more). The Loretto Hospital Foundation is the primary fundraising entity for Loretto Hospital and seeks to improve access to - and quality of - healthcare in the Austin Community by funding clinical equipment, capital projects, and program development at Loretto Hospital. www.lorettohospital.org /about.htm   (554 words)

IARC- King Fellowship- Estella Loretto Loretto's first sculpture, completed in 1993, is 8 feet tall and stands serenely in front of the New Mexico State Capitol Building in Santa Fe. Loretto's work reflects her high energy, her great ambition, and her transmission of a deep spiritual faith. Loretto will be in residency at SAR from September 1 to December 4, 2001, during which time she will create a special project for the School. www.sarweb.org /iarc/king/loretto01.htm   (614 words)

After 190 years, Loretto sisters still stake out new frontiers It was Sanders, a farsighted Loretto president (1970-78) at a time when there were Lorettines in 20 states, who encouraged the sisters of the post-Vatican II church to reach beyond their traditional teaching roles into new fields. What Loretto is open to, said Rabbitt -- and the community has always been innovative -- is a range of possibilities and fresh associations guided by “the signs of the times.” One example of that, she said, is a forthcoming meeting with a dozen young women who have asked to strengthen their ties to Loretto. Founded in Nerinx, Kentucky in 1812, the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross (initially the Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) are one of the first three orders of women religious to spring from American soil. www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/041202/041202j.htm   (1635 words)

Loretto High School: Admissions College prep at Loretto means you are surrounded by schoolmates who are all pursuing the same goal as you are: being thoroughly prepared for college. College prep means the classes at Loretto meet and even exceed the course requirements for the California university and state college systems and for private colleges around the nation. Loretto high school does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in the administration of admission policies, educational policies or financial aid programs, or in any other way. www.loretto.net /admissions/default.aspx   (789 words)

Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School The Abbey, a school for girls, was established by the religious of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Loretto Sisters. On September 16, 1847, there came from Loretto Abbey, Rathfarmham, Ireland, at the invitation of the first Bishop of Toronto, the Most Reverend Michael Power, five young missionary sisters, all in their 20s, who would be the first religious teachers in the newly formed diocese. Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School is a non-semestered all girls school. www.tcdsb.org /schools/lorettoabbey.asp   (1167 words)

My New Mexico - Loretto Chapel and the Miraculous Staircase, by Elizabeth Anne VanderPutten Stone for the Loretto Chapel was quarried from locations around Santa Fe including Cerro Colorado, about 20 miles from Santa Fe near the town of Lamy. There are also design questions about the number of stair risers compared to the height of the choir loft and about the types of wood and other materials used in the stairway's construction -- some of which appear not to have been available from any known local source. Loretto Chapel is now a private museum operated and maintained, in part, for the preservation of the Miraculous Staircase and the Chapel itself www.evanderputten.org /special/newmexico/loretto.htm   (703 words)

Loretto Academy Monthly Calendar: October 2006 Loretto will be hosting the Speech Tournament, for more information please call 566-8400 ext. Loretto will be holding the Raffle drawing today, for more information please call 566-8400 ext. Loretto will be having a Halloween Carnival in the Gym from 5:30 - 8:30 pm. www.student.loretto.org /calendar/academy/wc102006s.htm   (243 words)

City of Loretto, Tennessee: Homepage Loretto is located in southern Lawrence County in Middle Tennessee, 90 miles south of Nashville. It is easily reached by interstate 65 to Columbia and U.S. Highway 43 to Loretto. Loretto is six miles north of the Alabama line and is twenty-five miles north of Florence, Alabama. www.ci.loretto.tn.us /location.htm   (93 words)

Loretto High School Loretto High School’s combined chamber and school choirs sing the opening song at the high school’s 50th anniversary Mass Sept. 18 on campus. When Loretto High School first opened its doors in 1955 at its temporary location in the St. Philomene School gymnasium, a staff of nine teachers were present to welcome the 51 girls enrolled for the school year. Shoff’s mother was a teacher at Loretto when she was a student, and her daughter Lindy is a member of the high school’s class of 1998. www.diocese-sacramento.org /herald/articles/051001loretto.html   (784 words)

Loretto Fire & EMS @ Firehouse.com Network Loretto Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services was established in 1975 as the 15th fire department in Cullman County. Loretto Fire Department serves a rural residential area of over 2500 residents in approximately 15 square miles. Station 1 was constructed in 1994 and has the capacity to house at least 4 apparatus, crew quarters for 6 firefighters, a Chief’s office, 2 restrooms with showers, a crew area (dayroom or living room), and kitchen on the ground level. cms.firehouse.com /dept/LorettoAL   (482 words)

Handbook of Texas Online: The Sisters of Loretto, a religious order founded in Kentucky in 1812 by Mary Rhodes, Christine Stuart, and Nancy Havern under the direction of Father Charles Nerinckx, was focused from its beginning on teaching. In 1923 Loretto Academy was constructed on a seven-acre campus in the Austin Terrace area of the city. Besides the schools, the Sisters of Loretto administer Nazareth Hall in El Paso, a licensed nursing home built in 1962, primarily to care for the retired and infirm Sisters of Loretto. www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/ics14.html   (578 words)

Far-flung networks serve the margins; Loretto links reach out to poor and oppressed in United States and beyond, spread ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) If Loretto Sisters had a middle initial in common it wouldn't be "M" for Mary, it would be "N" for Network. Graduates of Loretto Academy in Shanghai (in the 1940s and '50s, Lorettines were first interned and then ousted by the communists) still meet in San Francisco. Loretto's 190-year-long commitment to women's education is reflected in Denver's St. Mary's Academy, on impressive Englewood acreage. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_23_38/ai_85060896   (789 words)

Loretto - California Ghost Town Loretto was a copper mining region that popped into existence in 1906. Loretto even attracted the attention of steel magnate Charles Schwab, who also had holdings in it seems nearly every other mining town that popped up in the Death Valley area. A smelter was built, but the ore was found to be rich near the surface, but did not continue deeper. www.ghosttowns.com /states/ca/loretto.html   (236 words)

Loretto, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Loretto is a city in Marion County, Kentucky, United States. Loretto is home to a beautiful bed and breakfast named The Hill House, a great place to stay while visiting Makers Mark. Loretto is also home to the former St. Francis High School and the Loretto Motherhouse whose magnificent rolling hills and wonderful statues make for a fantastic view. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loretto,_Kentucky   (441 words)

Loretto Verena schreibt über ihren Weg in die Loretto Gemeinschaft und ihr Vertrauen in Jesus. Ein Text über die Entstehung der Loretto Bewegung. Loretto ist dabei und bietet zwei Varianten zur Fahrt an. www.loretto.at   (91 words)

Loretto, Tennessee TN, city profile (Lawrence County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk Loretto is a city in Lawrence County, in the Lawrenceburg metro area. At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Loretto was $18,195, compared with $21,587 nationally. Median rent in Loretto, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $320. www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=279453   (458 words)

Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The mystery has never been solved as to who the carpenter was or where he got his lumber, since there are no reports of anyone seeing lumber delivered or even seeing the man come and go while the construction was being done. Since he left before the Mother Superior could pay him, the Sisters of Loretto offered a reward for the identity of the man, but it was never claimed. The Loretto Chapel today no longer functions as a church, but weddings can be held there through arrangement. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loretto_Chapel   (541 words)

Sisters of Loretto formed Webster's foundation - LifeStyle   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Upon graduating from Webster, Barbato joined the convent in Nerinx, Ky., often referred to as the "motherhouse" by the Sisters of Loretto, and began her mission to become a sister. In her role as president of Webster College, Grennan Wexler, along with other Sisters of Loretto who served as faculty, advocated for the school to be transferred to a lay board of directors and be released from operation of the Sisters of Loretto. Currently, the Sisters of Loretto's main focus is not restricted to education. www.webujournal.com /news/2006/04/20/Lifestyle/Sisters.Of.Loretto.Formed.Websters.Foundation-1861765.shtml   (1251 words)

Loretto High School -- Alumnae These ladies attended Loretto on the first day it opened in September 1955, were members of the first two graduating classes, and are planning to be a big part of the 50 th Anniversary celebration! Ann was very excited to receive her 50 th Anniversary Loretto Alumnae Directory in March and looks forward to seeing a “flood of alumnae, past faculty and staff” at the anniversary celebration at Loretto on Sunday, September 18, 2005. Her current interest as a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology is in a specialized study in death and bereavement. new.loretto.net /alumnae/fullcircle.php   (5252 words)

Sisters of Loretto Have Long Tradition The Sisters of Loretto began their educational work in Texas in 1879, when four sisters from Loretto Academy in Las Cruces went to San Elizario. In the 20th century, the Sisters of Loretto built the largest and best known of their schools in what is now central El Paso: Loretto Academy. She directed the building of Loretto, securing a loan of $80,000 to finish the school. www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/19_loretto.htm   (1248 words)

Loretto, Kentucky KY, city profile (Marion County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Loretto was $12,854, compared with $21,587 nationally. 2% of Loretto residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree. Median rent in Loretto, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $304. www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4132   (448 words)

Loretto Utica Center: About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Loretto Utica’s staff of proud, conscientious professionals is dedicated to exceeding the standards of excellence expected from facilities bearing the Loretto name. Loretto Utica Center provides a continuum of care – all within one facility. Loretto Utica is a state-of-the-art facility, right in your neighborhood – close to familiar places and loved ones. www.lorettoutica.org /aboutus.php   (293 words)

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