Sister Paschal Engelhardt, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection is a drop file with several folders. It contains personal data of Sister Paschal Engelhardt, OSB, her obituary and other materials from her funeral. It also contains a small series of correspondence from friends and family, a short autobiography that Sister Paschal wrote the year before she died, and several photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1963-1978
Creator
- Engelhardt, Paschal, 1895-1977 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers. The remaining restriction on correspondence (April 2027) was lifted by Sister Mary Susan Remsgar, OSB in February 2025.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Paschal Engelhardt, OSB was born in Bilhausen, Germany, one of 14 children. She came to Chicago in 1926 to enter the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, responding to a call for Sisters from Mother Imelda Fischer, OSB. Trained as a seamstress, Sister Paschal continued this work in community - in Chicago and Colorado. She is remembered for her kindness, creativity, and deep faith in God.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
German
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 Paschal Engelhardt, OSB papers
- Author
- Virginia Jung, OSB
- Date
- 2025-03-03
- 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