Loretto Kentucky

Father Stephen Badin - Loretto, Kentucky



Cemetery - Loretto, Kentucky

Father Stephen Theodore Badin provided the land for the present day farm at Loretto to the sisters before he moved to Indiana.  A statue of Father Badin is on the Loretto property.  He was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States.  

It is commonly said that tree branches without leaves are sad or ugly looking.  But deciduous trees have a time for locking down vital tree elements for life.  And through the hyphae of fungi that coexist with the tree roots activity in the soil goes on.  You can't see this but it is there.  Hurry is a waste.  Buds will come.  Wide green leaves will come.  A tree has features to appreciate without its full presentation of its leaves. The time without buds and green leaves is just as valid as any time of the tree's life. With experience the way of nature comes to the one who takes it in.