Collection of Benedictine post cards
Scope and Contents
The postcards represent Benedictine places that Sisters visited on pilgrimage, study trips, or meetings. They also represent places the Sisters lived and worked. There is a set of postcards from our daughterhouse, St. Mary Monastery, when it was located in Nauvoo, Illinois. The majority show exteriors and interiors of buildings or works of art. The series also includes prayer cards and bookmarks representing Benedictine ideas that were distributed in the community at different poionts, including the work of Sr. Hilary Halpin, OSB (1940-) and Sister Susan Quaintance, OSB (1963-) for the centennial of our community in Colorado and 125 years in Chicago in 1986.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Biographical / Historical
Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB (1913-2023) collected postcards in the archives that were donated in unspecified ways. Sister Virginia Jung, OSB (1958-) assembled this series of postcards associated with the Benedictine world from unprocessed postcards found in the archives. There is a set of two booklets of postcards with interior and exterior views of St. Walburg Abbey in Eichstatt, Bavaria from about 1928.
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
- Montecassino (Monastery) (Organization)
- St. Scholastica Monastery (Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- St. Scholastica High School (Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- St. Scholastica Academy (Cañon City, Colo.) (Organization)
- St. Mary Monastery (Rock Island, Illinois) (Organization)
- Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany) (Organization)
- Title
- A Guide to Benedictine Postcards collection
- Author
- Virginia Jung
- Date
- 2024-02-29
- 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