Mother Theresa Krug, OSB papers

This collection consists of biographical information and personal papers. Biographical information includes one hanging file of basic information and documents such as a personal data sheet, community obituaries and biographies, photographs of Mother Theresa, photocopied vow documents, a prayer card from her Golden Jubilee in Italy, and more.

Personal papers consist primarily of research about Mother Theresa and her brother Archabbot Boniface Krug, providing a variety of different perspectives, recollections, and personal accounts of Mother Theresa's life. For example, the series, "Biographical research and archival correspondence," includes such documents as a biography of Mother Theresa written by Mother Imelda Fischer, an account of the mission in Canon City, Colorado, by Sister Regina, describing Mother Theresa's plans in 1900 to start a novitiate there, an archival inquiry by Mother's ancestor in Germany, and the testimonies by Sister Vincent Siegert, Mother Laura, and Sister Marie of the Saint Jospeh Convent in St Mary's, Pennsylvania about why Mother Theresa chose to leave for Italy. The series, "Visit to the Abbey of Monte Cassino" records Sister Marilyn's trip to the Italian Monastery, in which she inquired about Mother's time there as abbess as well as her death and burial.

Other series in this collection include photographs, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to Mother's friends and relations, such as her brother Archabbot Boniface Krug, the artist Eliza Allen Starr, two proteges, and Reverend Father Dom Mauro Inguanez, whom she asked to return her ring for her to the Chicago community following her death. Only one series, "Letters, writings, and annotated prayer cards," contains a small selection of photocopies of documents written or autographed by Mother Theresa. Some of these documents are accompanied by later translations.