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Mother
Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968) Historical Marker
Location
of sign - East Alameda Street in Santa Fe New Mexico
Photo
taken- June 2008
Text
of sign:
Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968)
Four
Sisters of Loretto, Mother Magdalen Hayden and Sisters Roberta
Brown, Rosana Dant and Catherine Mahoney, arrived in
Santa
Fe from Kentucky on September 26, 1852. In January 1853 they
established Our Lady of Light Academy, later known as
Loretto,
the first school for young women in the Territory of New Mexico.
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