Sister Baptista Krummenacher, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of basic biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, information on next of kin, a photograph, a community obituary, photocopies of news article obituaries, short biographies, and various notes- both typed and handwritten- containing recollections and biograhical details.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1910-1988
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Baptista Krummenacher, OSB was born Emma on February 6th, 1882 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was a nursing student when she immigrated to the United States, entering the Chicago community on Christmas day, December 25th, 1907. Sister made her first vows on July 12th, 1909, and her final profession on July 26th, 1912.
Sister served the community in a variety of ways: baking altar breads, feeding the chickens, caring for elderly and sick Sisters, and supervising the making of coifs. In Canon City, Colorado, she was appointed infirmarian, and also served as manager of the Saint Scholastica Academy laundry and maintenance departments. She was devoted to Saint Joseph, and often performed as a yodeller at community talent shows.
Sister died on March 6th, 1956, and is buried in All Saints Cemetery.
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
- Krummenacher, Baptista, 1887-1956 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Baptista Krummenacher, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-12-01
- 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