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Print of St. Stephen’s Farm 1812. The description is by Reverend E. Drury, Chaplain 1906-1913.

Print is labeled Loretto 1812, but handwritten corrections say St. Stephen's Farm and re-label the Novitiate as Seminary. The bottom part (reads "From…

Print of St. Stephen's Farm, described below (unmarked) as Loretto 1812 from description by Rev. E. Drury.

Pair of brass candleholders. Circular, with three round feet on base and spire on top of holder. These candlesticks were used on the altar in the church at Loretto Motherhouse. "Fr. Nerinckx" written on interior of bases.

Plaster statue of Jesuit St. Francis de Hieronymo (Francis de Geronimo), painted, dressed in a cassock with a lace surplice and purple ribbon stole, holding a metal rosary crucifix. Attached to circular wood base. The people of the area attributed…

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…

Watercolor painting of St. Stephen’s Farm 1812, with Bishop Flaget's residence, St. Stephen's Church, Fr. Badin's residence, and Seminary. Painted by Thomas A. O’Shaughnessy (Chicago, IL, designer), based on the description of Fr. Edwin Drury,…

Replica of Fr. Nerinckx’s log cabin. It is not known when it was made or by whom, made from a cardboard box and covered with sticks and bark, four glass windows and miniature furniture: two tables, two chairs, bed, made of balsa wood.Likely the…

Silver hanging sanctuary lamp. This was hung in the Pieta Chapel in the 1980 Church of Seven Dolors at Loretto Motherhouse renovation.

Horizontal cut of a holly tree. Written on edge: “Fr. Badin’s holly cut March 31, 1917, Loretto 7 ½ ft circum. at base” Father Stephen Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States owned the land now the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Loretto…

Dark-stained vestment case, used in Loretto Chapel until c. 1960.