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Cemetery at Loretto Heights in Denver to close, bodies of 62 nuns will be relocated

The Sisters of Loretto had been concerned about maintenance and care for years

The cemetery at Colorado Heights University ...
Monte Whaley, The Denver Post
The cemetery at Colorado Heights University Thursday night, June 29, 2017. Sixty-two nuns are buried there, some graves were dug as far back as 100 years ago.
DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 4:  Shelly Bradbury - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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The bodies of 62 nuns buried in a 123-year-old cemetery at the former Loretto Heights campus in southwest Denver will be exhumed and relocated as the former Catholic school campus is redeveloped into new housing and business space.
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