Sister Praxedes Gmeiner, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a personal data sheet, a prayer card and negative of the prayer card's portrait, community obituary/biography, and ministry lists (extrapolated from history photocopies, etc.).
Dates
- Creation: 1919-1993
Conditions Governing Access
The material in this collection is unrestricted. It is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Praxedes Gmeiner, OSB was born Catherine to Austrian parents on March 10th, 1890 in Denver, Colorado, the natural younger sister of Sister Modesta Gmeiner, OSB. She joined the community on August 17th, 1905, and professed perpetual vows on July 11th, 1910.
Sister was one of four founding teachers at St. Michael's School in Canon City, Colorado. She was also stationed at St. Mary's Parish in Pueblo, where she was one of 15 community sisters who contracted the Spanish Flu.
Sister died of the influenza on January 10th, 1919 at 28 years old. Because of the pandemic, her body could not be taken into the church for burial rites. She is buried in the St. Mary's section of Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo, Colorado.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet (1 hanging file)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Subject
- Gmeiner, Praxedes, 1890-1919 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Praxedes Gmeiner, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-10-14
- 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