Sister Pancratia Katowski, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal data sheet, community obituaries, and a letter sent from the Dominician Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, thanking community archivist Sister Vivian for sending them a copy of Sister Pancratia's obituary.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1918-2000
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Pancratia Katowski, OSB was born Anna in Kamin, Prussia (now Poland) on December 3rd, 1872. She was a member of Saint Joseph's Parish, Chicago, when she entered the community on May 3rd, 1891. Sister made her first vows on November 21st, 1892, and her final profession on June 19th, 1918.
Sister served as a cook at Saint Scholastica Academy in Canon City, Colorado around the year 1900. Very little is known about Sister's life in religion beyond this.
Sister died on June 19th, 1918 at the age of 45 from the Spanish flu. She 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.
Subject
- Katowski, Pancratia, 1872-1918 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Pancratia Katowski, 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
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203
archives@osbchicago.org