St. Scholastica Academy (Cañon City, Colo.)

Scope and Contents Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB created this scrapbook to document the archival research trip that she and Sister Eleanor Hillenbrand, OSB made to Colorado in the Spring of 1991. Their local guides were Sister Amy Campbell, OSB, Sister Jeanne Hegarty, OSB, and Sister Dorothy Van Alstyne, OSB. In addition to many towns where our Sisters held Summer Schools of Religion, they also spent time at more established Benedictine centers of education and faith like Saint Scholastica Academy in Cañon...

Scope and Contents The postcards represent Benedictine places that Sisters visited on pilgrimage, study trips, or meetings. They also represent places the Sisters lived and worked. There is a set of postcards from our daughterhouse, St. Mary Monastery, when it was located in Nauvoo, Illinois. The majority show exteriors and interiors of buildings or works of art. The series also includes prayer cards and bookmarks representing Benedictine ideas that were distributed in the community at different poionts,...

Scope and Contents From the Class: This class contains periodicals with content from across all areas of the archives. We store them together due to their similar material, size, and fragility. The content is related to individual Benedictine Sisters, schools staffed by Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and to the Catholic culture of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Pueblo. The archives considers the context of the articles and/or the carrier of the content to be of intrinsic value so the entire page or newspaper...

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Eleanor Walsh's sewing thesis, a graduation requirement, is a paper book with hand drawn patterns and handwritten explanations of pattern making and garment construction. It includes sample miniature cotton and muslin garments and wax paper pattern pieces used to construct some of them. Sister Virginia Jung, OSB prepared the transcript of the text of the paper book.

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This documents relates to the first five years of Sister Mary Benet McKinney, OSB's term as prioress. It focuses on financial and development events, community life and governance changes, and brief reports about St. Scholastica Academy in Cañon City, Colorado and St. Scholastica High School in Chicago, Illinois.

Scope and Contents This collection contains condensed histories and timelines of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. Some were prepared by the archivist, Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB as research aids or at the request of community and school leadership. Others were prepared for Monastic Visitation packages or by the Development Office of the two sponsored high schools. The earliest chronology comes from the end material of the book-length community history, Where There Was Need,...

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This history begins with the arrival of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago in Breckenridge, their first mission in Colorado, in 1886. It describes the move to Cañon City, and the development of St. Scholastica Academy at that location, noting that while the school closed in 2001, the last graduates received diplomas in 2002.

Scope and Contents This collection contains biographical material, including a personal data sheet, vow formula, next of kin lists, ministry listings, professional credentials, worship aids, obituaries and prayer cards. There is also a collection of photographs from her First Communion through her life in community. Other series include news articles from the press and from within the community, transcripts and diplomas from high school, college, and continuing education, as well as a small set of letters and...