Abstract
Eighty-two years of steady progress in Colorado's educational field is a record of which the Sisters of Loretto are justly proud. From that memorable day in the July of 1864, when three brave women opened the first Lorettine school in Denver, to the present time which witnesses a group of about two hundred Sisters staffing eight parochial grade schools, two parochial high schools, one academy, and one college, there runs a story of remarkable achievement.|The Sisters of Loretto are truly the pioneers of education in Colorado. They responded to the appeal of Bishop (then Father) Machebeuf when to do so required great courage; for Indians infested the country which they were obliged to traverse, while the fatigue consequent upon the slow and incommodious travel of tine time was a prospect sufficiently forbidding to the stoutest of spirits. Then, too, these Sisters were fully aware of the fact that they were destined for a section of the country which was rugged in the extreme, and which would offer them little but the opportunity to practice what they had vowed in poverty. But they were undaunted; these Lorettines set the example of courage and fortitude in the cause for the spread of Christ's kingdom.