Religious Education Schools collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to 77 vacation schools in Colorado where Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught from the 1920s through the 1980s. While some files are limited to a single slip of paper detailing a town and parish, especially in locations with a small classes, others are filled with news clippings, archival photographs, historical pamphlets, and more. Also included is some information about a few summer schools of religion in Illinois. While there are no official lists of vacation school faculty, Sisters' names are sourced from archivist notes, newsletters, and photographic metadata.
Dates
- Creation: 1929 - 2007
Creator
- Ivantic, Vivian, 1913-2023 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Monastery records are closed for 50 years after the date of creation. Photographs, published materials, and widely disseminated materials are open.
Biographical / Historical
The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago served in Catholic vacation schools in Illinois, Arizona, and most of all, Colorado. From the 1920s through the 1980s. The Sisters provided the children in various counties with religious education, preparation for sacraments, and academic support. Most often, the summer schools of religion were held in areas without a Catholic school. Sometimes, the towns shared a priest with several other towns or were a mission of a church in another town. From 1988 to 1991, Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, made several trips out to Colorado to gather information about the vacation schools. Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB accompanied her as photographer while Sr. Jeanne Hegarty, OSB, and Sr. Amy Campbell, OSB, served as local guides to their Sister researchers from Chicago.
Extent
0.8 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.
Source
- St. Scholastica Monastery (Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- Title
- A Guide to Religious Education Schools collection
- Author
- Justin Anderson; Virginia Jung, OSB
- Date
- 2024-03-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2024-04-26: revision of Rights Statement
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