Sister Baptista Darmstadt, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes obituaries, a photograph, a personal data sheet, and archival research correspondence regarding the nature of Sister Baptista's work at Saint Bede Abbey and the location of her gravesite.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1866-1979
Creator
- Darmstadt, Baptista, 1844-1893 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. Material is open to research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Baptista (Catherine) Darmstadt was born on December 8th, 1844 in Elmhurst, Illinois. She joined the Chicago community on October 5th, 1866. Sister's perpetual profession was celebrated in 1871 under community prioress Mother Theresa Krug.
Little is known about Sister's life and ministries. The diary of Sister Irmina Zak, OSB notes that Sister served as "head cook" of the community in 1888. Sister Baptista was also missioned to Saint Bede College and Monastery in Peru, Illinois, where the Benedictine sisters were in charge of both kitchen and laundry. She died there at the age of 48 on June 7th, 1893, and is buried in Saint Boniface Cemetery, Chicago.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Baptista Darmstadt, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-09-22
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives Repository
Archives
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203
archives@osbchicago.org