Sister Walburga Kowalska, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal data sheet and community obituaries.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1908
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Walburga Kowalska, OSB was born Marie on October 12th, 1844 in Danzig, Prussia (now Poland). Sister joined the community along with her natural sister, Sister Thecla, on July 18th, 1881. She was invested on August 15th, 1881, making her first vows on August 16th, 1882. She made her final vows on August 15th, 1885.
Sister Walburga served as the procurator to the community, managing financial affairs, as well as in artistic needlework and painting. An ornately embroidered humeral veil entitled "Boniface Wimmer Jubilee Embroidery," (T.24) is thought to be the work of either Sister Walburg or Sister Thecla.
Sister Walburga died on April 20th, 1908 at the age of 64. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois.
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
- Kowalska, Walburga, 1844-1908 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Walburga 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