A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, nuns, founded, 1812, loretto.Lorettine
One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.
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