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The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to education founded in Saint-Omer by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609.
Loreto College, Loreto Convent, Loreto School and similar may refer to a number of Roman Catholic schools throughout the world associated with the Sisters of Loreto.
The Loreto Sisters belong to one branch of the Institute of the ‘Congregatio Jesu’, earlier called the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), the religious order founded by an English Woman from a recusant background, Mary Ward in 1609.
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Mary Ward was born in Mulwith, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Marmaduke and Ursula Wright Ward. She was born at a time of great conflict for Roman Catholics in England. Two of her uncles were involved in the Gunpowder Plot. In 1595 her family home burned down in an anti-Catholic riot; the children who were praying at the time were saved by their fath...
However, Mary Ward did not find herself called to the contemplative life and instead decided to dedicate herself to an active ministry, whilst still being a religious; this was considered most unusual at the time. At the age of twenty-four she found herself surrounded by a band of devoted companions including Winefrid Wigmore determined to work und...
Loreto Abbey Catholic Secondary School is an all girls high school that is also home to the Loreto Sisters. For the 400th anniversary of her birth in 1985, a high school in Toronto, Ontario, was named after her. Another Catholic Secondary school in Toronto Ontario is named after her. Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School Self Directed-Center for lear...
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mary Ward". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Kóhler, Mathilde: Maria Ward. Ein Frauenschicksal des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kósel Verlag, 1984Görres, Ida Friederike. Mary Ward, trans. Elsie Codd. London: Longmans, Green: 1939.Sr. Ursula Dirmeier, CJ, ed., Mary Ward und ihre Gründung: Die Quellentexte bis 1645 (Mary Ward and Her Foundation. The Source Texts to 1645), 4 vols, 2007, Münster 2007, Corpus Catholicorum, vols....Immolata Wetter, Bernadette Ganne, Patricia Harriss, Mary Ward Under the Shadow of the Inquisition, 1630-1637, Way Books, 2006, ISBN 0-904717-28-3.Wallace, David (2012). "Holy Amazon: Mary Ward of Yorkshire, 1585-1645". Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199661343.Wallace, David (2006). "Periodizing Women: Mary Ward (1585-1645) and the Premodern Canon". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 36 (2): 397–453. doi:10.1215/10829636-2005-007. Retrieved 29...L. Lux-Sterritt (2011). "Mary Ward's English Institute and Prescribed Female Roles in the Early Modern Church", in L. Lux-Sterritt and C. Mangion (eds.), Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women...Literature by and about Mary Ward (nun) in the German National Librarycatalogue"Mary Ward" in the Ecumenical Lexicon of SaintsTrue to the spirit of their foundress, Mary Ward, the Loreto Sisters developed the school in Coleraine, added extensions, adapted to changes in the educational system and maintained the high standards of Loreto education.
The core values derive from the educational philosophy of Mary Ward, a 16th century English woman, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the order of nuns who started the college in 1851.
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Aug 31, 2023 · A brief history of Loretto Heights College. Loretto Heights was founded in 1864 when Father J.P. Machebeuf was sent to Colorado as a missionary. He was accompanied by three Sisters of Loretto from the Loretto Motherhouse in Kentucky.
