The Ground Today

Verified November 2026

The bluff as it stands. The motherhouse ground in November 2026 holds everything this record has followed onto it. The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross is headquartered there, under Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner's leadership for the 2024–2029 term, and holds the 278 acres the college catalog states. Saint Mary's College, in the second year of Le Mans Hall's second century, enrolls its 1,601 students under its fourteenth president, Dr. Katie Conboy, in the buildings the sisters raised — Bertrand and Lourdes halls now the college's by the sale of 2021, the sisters in residence in them by the leaseback agreed that day. The Church of Our Lady of Loretto says its daily and Sunday Masses on the congregation's schedule; the sisters' dead lie in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery under the Calvary of 1940; and the congregation's own archives rest in the Heritage and Research Center founded on the campus in 2023, where the records this history was built from are kept. Across the river the university the sisters served in its log-chapel attic carries its own record in this history's pages.

Sources

1. Saint Mary's College Catalog 2024–25 — the 278 acres owned by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
2. HARC, Archival Reference Guide (2026 edition) — the leadership line to 2024–2029; the Heritage and Research Center on the Saint Mary's campus.
3. Saint Mary's College (college site and releases, 2021–2026) — the 2021 sale and leaseback; the Conboy presidency; the Loretto Mass schedule; IPEDS 2024–25 enrollment.