Sister Rita Cascia Hildenbrand, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of basic biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, a photograph, community obituaries, community correspondence regarding her health and the circumstances of her death, and research notes from a trip to the Nauvoo Priory Archive regarding her biographical details.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1911-1992
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. It is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Rita Cascia Hildenbrand, OSB was born Josepha on January 5th, 1877 in Rauenberg, Baden, Germany. She immigrated to the United States in 1906 with Mother Otilla, joining the St. Mary's Convent in Nauvoo, Illinois. Sister later came to the Chicago community in 1911 as a novice, making her first profession on July 26th, 1912, and her final profession on July 11th, 1916.
Sister Rita Cascia served as a "Martha" or house mistress at many of the community's parochial school convents. She died on September 22nd, 1954 at the age of 77, and is buried in the All Saints Cemetery in Desplaines, Illinois.
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
- Hildenbrand, Rita Cascia, 1877-1954 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Rita Cascia Hildenbrand, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-11-03
- 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