Sister Evangelista Amundson, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection is very limited. It includes a personal data sheet, a faculty listing for Saint Joseph School in Salida, Colorado, various biographical notes and research, and an annotated holy card.
Dates
- Creation: 1928-2001
Creator
- Amundson, Evangelista, 1898-unknown (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is available for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Evangelista Amundson, OSB was born Mary Alice in Beloit, Wisconsin on October 31st, 1898 to an English mother and a Norwegian father. She attended school at Saint Scholastica Academy in Canon City, Colorado, before entering the community on January 6th, 1917. She made her first vows on July 11th, 1918, and her final profession on September 5th, 1921.
Sister served as a faculty member at Saint Joseph School in Salida, Colorado. She was dispensed from her perpetual vows, but served at the Academy until her dispensation became final. Sister left the community on November 18th, 1930. Due to mental illness, Sister was purportedly a patient in the State Hospital for the Mentally Ill in Pueblo, Colorado at the time of her dispensation.
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.
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Evangelista Amundson, OSB papers
- Author
- Mickey Smith; Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2024-11-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2026-01-06: Revised scope and contents, date ranges, arrangement, and biography
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
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