Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Loretto: Annals of the Century
A word is asked of me to serve as a prelude to the story beautiful which follows. This should be an easy task; for, as a prelude introducing a song that is to be sung adopts from the song itself its spirit and its motif, so in our case it will be only necessary to point the way to Old Kentucky, and tell you that there one hundred years ago the order of the Sisters of Loretto was founded.
There, by the running brooks, amid forest trees, with the cedars and the stars as sentinels of their vigils, they set up the symbol of sacrifice, rude and crude as became the frontier; but, for those who stood beneath it, henceforth the Holy Rood. There was formed the Society of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross.
These were pioneer days: not as yet, though Boone had blazed the way westward, had the fires died by the wig wams of the savage: not as yet were hushed the wild voices of the forest. The log cabin was the castle where lived the hunter's wife, while the master himself went forth to the freedom of the forest and the limitless savannah.
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