Lorettos celebrate two centuries of touching lives

Lorettos celebrate two centuries of touching lives

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Theirs was a meeting of the minds, and of faith. Like a Christ-impelled pebble dropped into the sea of humanity, their meeting created waves of movement. She was Mary Rhodes, a young Maryland woman come to Kentucky to visit her brother, Bennett. He was Fr. Charles Nerinckx, a transplanted Belgian priest who’d fled the European anti-Catholicism stoked by the French Revolution