The Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse Convent

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Motherhouse
The Loretto Motherhouse is the traditional “home place” for the Sisters of Loretto, and a spiritual center for the broader Loretto Community, “which seeks to praise God and serve the near and farther neighbor by educating ourselves and others in the ways of peace and justice.”
The Loretto Motherhouse property has been a working farm from the time the Rev. Stephen Badin purchased the land in 1796 and named it St. Stephen’s Farm. It became home to the Sisters of Loretto in 1824, the center from which Loretto sent teachers to the western frontier and, later as far as China, South America, Africa and Pakistan. Today, in addition to being the home to about 100 Loretto Community members and housing the Infirmary, a licensed long-term care facility for aging sisters and others.
www.lorettocommunity.org/about/motherhouse/