Sister Boniface Karl, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains limited biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, a photocopied Latin vow sheet, a community obituary, and a photograph.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1866-1876
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All materials are open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Boniface Karl, OSB was born Marie on May 1st, 1846 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She entered the community on June 4th, 1866 and was invested on November 13th, 1867. She made her perpetual profession on February 10th, 1871 in Latin, which was witnessed by Mother Theresa Krug.
Little is known of Sister's life in religion. She may have taught in Saint Joseph Academy or Saint Joseph School in Chicago. She is said to have lost a "home" in the Chicago Fire of October, 1871.
Sister died at the age of 29 on January 4th, 1876, and is buried in Saint Boniface Cemetery.
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 Boniface Karl, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-11-12
- 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
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