Sister Thecla Kowalska, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal data sheet, community obituaries, photographs, and a translation of the embroidered humeral veil fragment (T.24).
Dates
- Creation: circa 1855-1918
Creator
- Kowalska, Thecla, 1842-1918 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is available for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Thecla Kowalska, OSB was born Rosa on April 26th, 1842 in Danzig, Prussia (now Poland). Along with her natural sister, Sister Walburga, Sister entered the community on July 18th, 1881. She was invested on August 15th, 1881, making her first profession on August 16th, 1882 in Latin. She made her final profession on August 15th, 1910, which was handwritten in German.
Little is known about Sister's life in religion. Both she and her natural sister were artists in needlework and painting, but were limited in their ability to work due to arthritis. A fragment of a humeral veil entitled, "Boniface Wimmer Jubilee Embroidery," is attributed either to Sister Thecla or Sister Walburga.
Sister Thecla died at the SS Benedict and Scholastica Convent on Orleans Street on May 7th, 1918. She is buried in Calvary, 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 Thecla Kowalska, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-11-19
- 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