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Altar, three levels, 38 ½”, 45 ½”, 52” high, tabernacle 21” x 32” x 12” deep, reredos, back of altar, 9’ high, 7’5” wide 42” deep, made for Holy Mary’s, Calvary, KY. Letter of Father Nerinckx, August 18, 1807: “I just came from Holy Mary’s where…

Mass bell, brass, was cast in Belgium. It was used by Fr. Nerinckx’s servers at Holy Mary’s on the Rolling Fork River, Calvary, KY.

Book of Diocesan Regulations for organizing congregations and the administration of temporalities of Roman Catholic Churches, 1836, by Rt. Rev. Chabrat, Coadjutor, Bardstown, KY. Worn blue-green paper cover.

Hymnbook, True Piety, published 1815 by Father David. This book was taken to New Mexico by some of the pioneer Lorettines and donated to the archives, January 1916, by Mother Rosine Green from Santa Fe, NM. Mother Rosine Green (1852-1933) was a…

Brass sconce, one of the original sconces from the Abbey of Gethsemani, KY. This was also a gift from Father Louis (Thomas Merton) when the chapel at Gethsemani was being renovated. Father Louis gave several talks and classes to the Loretto Novices.…

Brass cross with cloisonné-like design of white, blue, green, and maroon. One of the original consecration crosses from the Abbatial Church, Abbey of Gethsemani, KY. This was a gift from Father Louis (Thomas Merton) to Sr. Helen Jean Seidel and the…

Wood inlay crucifix, with ivory corpus and "INRI" sign; glass-fronted reliquary above corpus, with relic labeled in Latin as from the cross of Christ. The crucifix was brought by Father Nerinckx from Europe. He wrote: “The beautiful crucifix from the…

Metal standing crucifix; base decorated with floral pattern, engraved flower images on the sides, and an image in relief of a ram lying on a cross. Metal corpus and "INRI" sign. This crucifix was brought from Europe by Father Nerinckx in 1817 to give…

Reliquary crucifix on a (non-historic) red ribbon, identified as a First Class Relic of St. Charles Borromeo given to St. Charles Church, one of the early churches in Kentucky, by Father Charles Nerinckx.

Organ stop knobs from the first pipe organ in Kentucky, brought by Fr. Nerinckx for the Bardstown Cathedral, 1819. Labeled "Principal Bass" and "Principal SW."