Ivantic, Vivian, 1913-2023

Scope and Contents Sister Karen Bland, OSB attended the 3rd International Symposium of Benedictine Women which took place in Rome, Italy September 4-12, 1998. This meeting was an immediate precursor of the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum. This series contains a letter from Sister Ruth Ksycki, OSB to Sister Karen requesting materials from each monastery for a display of Benedictine life in North America to be shared at the meeting and the photographs that Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB shared for that...

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This sub-series is primarily comprised of lists of Sisters who taught vacation schools in Alamosa, Colorado. The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago had a large presence in the town, especially earlier in the 20th century. A pamphlet about the history of the Sacred Heart Church, a copy of some pages from "Our Community," and an Archives Newsletter are also included.

Scope and Contents The nine scrapbook albums in this series document the archival research trip of June 12th - July 3rd that Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB made to Colorado, mainly in search of material related to the Summer Schools of Religion that Sisters held in small and larger towns in Colorado. The scrapbooks also hold material related to parishes where the Sisters lived and worked year round. guide to the...

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...

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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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Scope and Contents This sub-series contains some information on vaction schools run by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago in Cedaredge, Colorado, throughout most of the 1950s. Several pictures taken during an archive trip to Colorado by Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, appear alongside a parish profile of St. Philip Benizi, presumably collected during the same trip, and a news clipping from a September, 1968, article in the Delta County Independent announcing the dedication of the...

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This series details the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's brief presence in Chandler, Colorado. Four Sisters ran a vaction school in the small coal town during the summer of 1940, which served children in Chandler, along with Williamsburg, Colorado, and Coal Creek, Colorado. Also included is an Archives Newsletter written following a 1991 archive trip Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, took to Colorado.

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This sub-series contains archive notes created by Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, listing when vacation schools were taught and which Sisters taught them for each town with a summer school of religion run by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago.

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This timeline begins at the 1861 foundation of the community in Chicago, Illinois and runs up to the election of Sister Philomene Linbeck, OSB in 1818. It is heavily annotated with corrections in pencil by Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB.