Schmid, Karl, 1912-1992
Person
Biography
Karl's wife Erika Pradel Schmid worked in the altar bread room (current location of the archives) of Saint Scholastica Monastery with Sister Madeline Sophie Seidl, OSB and Sister Thecla Franz, OSB. Erika died September 21, 2000 and is also buried at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Occupations
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carpenters
-- Date: circa 1940
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circa 1989
- Note: Karl Schmid was employed at Saint Scholastica Monastery in Chicago, Illinois.
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maintenance workers
-- Date: circa 1940
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circa 1989
- Note: Karl Schmid was employed at Saint Scholastica Monastery in Chicago, Illinois.
Places
- unknown (Place of Birth) -- Date: 1912-08-19
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Chicago -- Illinois
(Place of Death)
-- Date:
1992-02-07
- Note: Karl Schmid is buried at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
Metadata Rights Declarations
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Works of art, 1930-circa 1980
Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-D-BACHBENI-1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains devotional objects used by Sister Benigna Bacherle, OSB during her life as a Benedictine Sister. It includes a watercolor painting of the Madonna and Child in an Alpine household setting; this painting was the work of Karl Schmid, a monastery employee and co-worker of Sister Benigna, who also carved a wooden frame for a photograph of Pope John Paul II as gifts for her. There are holy cards, booklets of prayers and lives of saints, as well as a prayer that hung in...
Dates:
1930-circa 1980