TO
     THE REVEREND CHARLES NERINCKX,
        WHOSE APOSTOLIC LABORS IN
                KENTUCKY
   WERE CROWNED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT
        OF THE LORETTINE SOCIETY:
            TO THE FOUNDERS,
MARY RHODES, CHRISTINA STUART, NANCY HAVERN
          AND THEIR COMPANIONS;
   TO THE EQUALLY VALIANT WOMEN WHO,
         IN THE YEARS SUCCEEDING,
HAVE FED, BY THE CONSECRATION OF THEIR LIVES,
          LORETTO'S HOLY FLAME,
               THIS BOOK
               IS DEDICATED
                   BY
              THE AUTHOR.