Coffey, Benita, 1931-

Scope and Contents The materials in this series relate to the work of Sister Patricia Crowley, OSB with the departments and ad hoc committees of the monastery. The Benita sub-series was compiled by Sister Patricia Crowley, OSB herself and contains materials related to her meetings with Sister Benita Coffey, OSB who served as vocation director, oblate director, and social justice coordinator. Each year, Sisters are commissioned for certain roles in the monastery and in the surrounding community. Although...

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This sub-series is comprised of a list of Sisters who taught vacation schools in Belleplaine, Colorado, along with a news clipping about St. Anne Church, and several photographs of the parish over the years, including one of Sr. Mary Bede Beck, OSB, standing outside the church with her pupils.

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This collection contains promotional material and guidelines for Benedictine oblate programs, the membership lists and directories of St. Scholastica Monastery oblates, as well as some correspondence of oblate directors, and liturgical worship aids. One worship aid is related to efforts to canonize Benedictine oblate Dorothy Day. This collection will continue to grow as new content is created and donated.

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This series contains a couple photographs of Sr. Constance Matern, OSB, and Sr. Anthony Hrusovsky, OSB, a priest, and their vacation school group outside St. Mary Church in Eagle, Colorado. Also included are some pictures taken during a 1989 archive trip Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, took to Colorado. The list of Sisters who taught at the summer schools of religion in Eagle may be incomplete, as the second page of the list is missing.

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This sub-series contains a long list of Sisters who taught vacation schools in Las Animas, Colorado, for over 30 years. Several documents relate to St. Mary Church, including a postcard of the exterior, a print of the interior, a pamphlet about the history of the parish, and a news article from the Southern Colorado Register that mentions the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. A postcard from Leadville, Colorado, is also included, but the reason is unclear.

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This sub-series contains many photos and several news clippings relating to vacation schools the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught in Minturn, Colorado, from the late 1930s to late 1970s. Most material was produced during the 1950s.

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Sister Benita Coffey, OSB letters to the Oblates. In later years, when she produced the newsletter on the computer, Sister Benita did not save the files but efficiently used the most recent newsletter as a template for the next. No Oblates were found to have copies of those newsletters.

Scope and Contents Includes the first formal request for oblate investiture from Mary Ann Vitale on October 25, 1977. There is also confirmation that Dorothy Delacoma Andries was invested as an oblate when she was a student at Saint Scholastica Academy in Chicago, Illinois on December 3, 1953. Before women's monasteries could receive oblates, some students became oblates of St. Benedict Abbey in Atchison, Kansas. There is an undated message from Mary Marren to the Sisters outlining her experiences at St....

Scope and Contents From the Series: These oral histories of Oblates of Saint Scholastica Monastery in Chicago, Illinois were carried out by history students from DePaul University. The first series was done in 2017, the 40th anniversary of the program which was honored at that year's Testimonial Dinner. The students created a display of several posters which were on exhibit at the dinner; photographs of those posters are included in this series. History professor Amy Tyson of DePaul University trained the students in oral...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains promotional material and guidelines for Benedictine oblate programs, the membership lists and directories of St. Scholastica Monastery oblates, as well as some correspondence of oblate directors, and liturgical worship aids. One worship aid is related to efforts to canonize Benedictine oblate Dorothy Day. This collection will continue to grow as new content is created and donated.