St. Scholastica Academy -- Cañon City, Colorado

Scope and Contents From the Class: This class contains periodicals with content from across all areas of the archives. We store them together due to their similar material, size, and fragility. The content is related to individual Benedictine Sisters, schools staffed by Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and to the Catholic culture of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Pueblo. The archives considers the context of the articles and/or the carrier of the content to be of intrinsic value so the entire page or newspaper...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 1 hanging file of biographical and personal data and 1 box of personal papers. Sister Miriam Russell had a reputation as a dedicated correspondent. Her box of personal papers contains a small sample of letters to or from her between 1967 and 2001, as well as letters about her sent to the community during her retirement and after her death. Her family was well known in Southern Colorado and her mother’s memoirs of the Santa Fe Trail served as sources for...