Sister Bernarda Kraft, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a personal data sheet and a community obituary.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1916
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is available for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Bernarda Kraft, OSB was born Maria on March 19th, 1846 in Michelsbach, Baden (now Germany). At four years old, Sister immigrated to the United States with her parents and family. Sister was invested in the community on September 10th, 1868. She made her final profession on September 19th, 1872 in Saint Joseph Church.
Sister Bernarda was a lay sister. Little is known about her life in religion.
Sister died on October 19th, 1916, at the age of 70. 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
- Kraft, Bernarda, 1846-1916 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Bernarda Kraft, 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