Sister Ebba Kriegleder, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of limited biographical data. It includes a personal data sheet, community obituaries and short biographies, phototcopies of news clippings announcing Sister's death, photographs, and a photocopy of a document written in a German cursive (possibly a vow sheet or sacramental certificate) dated 1884.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1884-1944
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Ebba Kriegleder, OSB was born Catherine on May 2nd, 1865 in Tiefenbach, Bavaria (now Germany). Sister entered the community on August 17th, 1892, and was invested on August 27th, 1893. Sister made her first vows on August 28th, 1894, and her final profession on August 29th, 1898.
Sister served primarily in parochial school convents, charged with domestic duties such as housekeeping and cooking. She was missioned to Saint Scholastica Academy in Canon City, Saint Mary and Saint Anthony in Pueblo, Saint George in Chicago, and Mother of God in Waukegan, Illinois.
Sister died in Chicago on October 9th, 1944, and 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
- Kriegleder, Ebba, 1865-1944 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Ebba Kriegleder, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-11-20
- 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