Maytown Seminary records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains data compiled by the Benedictine leadership and archivists. There is a booklet titled The Catholic Church in Maytown. It was published in 1976 in commemoration of the Centennial of St. Patrick's Parish.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-2019
Conditions Governing Access
This material is not restricted. It is open to researchers.
Biographical / Historical
Maytown was a German settlement in Illinois. The Benedictine Sisters opened an elementary school outside Chicago to serve the mission in 1880. Sister Rose Brehm,OSB was the principal until 1883. The school may have been known as the Benedictine Academy. The Benedictine Sisters also staffed Maytown Seminary as a secondary school from 1867-1871 and 1879-1880.
The Sisters also provided religious education in Hennepin, 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
- Maytown Seminary (Sublette, Ill.) (Organization)
- Brehm, Rose, 1849-1930 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Maytown Seminary records
- Author
- Lorrie Wiltgen
- Date
- 2025-11-25
- 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