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Colored print of the Crucifixion of Christ, with the corpus represented by a large red Sacred Heart. The cross is set into an outcropping with text "O Jesus! O Marie!" printed below. A simplified image of the 1816 Little Loretto print is to the right…

Pen and ink drawing copying Courtois of Mechlin's 1816 "Little Loretto" print. Notes written in pencil on back. The artist was Anita M. Kopf, who was a junior in the Art Department at Webster College (Webster Groves, MO) in February 1948.

Two prints from the engraving plate 2021.000.050a, depicting the crucifix with a large Sacred Heart in front dripping smaller hearts, with text "O Suffering Jesus!! O Sorrowful Mary!!" below. At the bottom of the plate is the text "Grave por Courtois…

Metal engraving plate, depicting the crucifix with a large Sacred Heart in front dripping smaller hearts, with text "O Suffering Jesus!! O Sorrowful Mary!!" below. At the bottom of the plate is the text "Grave por Courtois a Malines / The Friends of…

Plaster statue of St. Anne, seated with a book, instructing the child Mary. This statue was brought by Father Nerinckx from Europe in the early 1800s and placed at Little Loretto in 1817.

Rock souvenir from the pilgrimage of the novices in 1961 to “Little Loretto,” the original location of the Loretto Motherhouse, which is east of St. Charles Catholic Church on the north edge of the tiny town of St. Mary’s, KY. See also #0457.

Stone from “Little Loretto,” taken June 30, 1912. During the centenary year of Loretto’s foundation, some individuals visited the site of “Little Loretto,” which is located to the east of St. Charles Catholic Church on the north edge of the tiny town…

Print of Little Loretto, 5 ¾” x 4 1/8”, originally engraved in Belgium by Courtois of Malines (likely Jean Pierre Alexandre Courtois). See also #0014a and #0014b. Note : mountains and palm trees.

Statue of Our Lady and Child. This statue obtained from Europe in 1807, was lovingly called by Father Nerinckx, Loretto’s founder, “my statue” and was kept in his own dwelling at St. Stephen’s Farm until he took it to Little Loretto in 1812. It was…

Intaglio engraving print depicting Little Loretto, the original home of the Sisters of Loretto. Image shows an area surrounded with a Virginia zigzag fence containing seven log buildings (one with a steeple), fields in the background, and a central…