But, all of the parishioners and kids that went to school pronounced it "Loretta" as in the woman's name. That's the way it sounded.

Glad to see a lot of "Yous" have finally gotten with the program and contributed to this wonderful website, thank God we have it, we may have lost "our school" but our spirit is still alive and well.

Although Loreto is correct, the Saint depicted with a house in her outstretched hands, for all the time I went to the school (1950-1958) we always wrote Loretto and all books and correspondence had Loretto written on it.

when i attended o.l.of l. it was spelled loretto. so i don't know how we lost a "t". i graduated in 1954. sincerely, carol(apicella) susinno

I have noticed that on all the school class photos that I have posted on this website, they are spelling it Loretto.

Also, any documents sent form the church, the spelling is Loreto.

My only conclusion to this mystery is that the Church is named Loreto and the school is named Loretto.

You guess is as good as mine.