St. Scholastica Academy (Cañon City, Colo.)

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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The bulk of this collection from the Archives department consistes of Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB correspondence and summaries or timelines of community history. There are also Sister Vivian Ivantic OSB notes on the early days of community, catalogs of the collections, seals, and the works of other researchers on the history of the community. The Archives Newslette is the largest series.

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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.

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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...

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This series contains schedules, programs, and planning materials regarding spiritual programming by Sister Benita Coffey, OSB. She worked with adults and students at the middle school through university levels.

Scope and Contents As a student and as a teacher, Sister Benita Coffey, OSB wrote academic papers consisting of the following topics: Saint Benedict's devotion to Christ, a study on the book of Psalms, the assembly's participation in the liturgy, school activities, and student responsibilty. Sister Benita Coffey, OSB along with Sister Suzanne Zuercher, OSB wrote a play based on "Cats" the musical, starring the Sisters as the characters in the play. Also included is a topic on the impact of the 3rd World...