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Benedictine nuns

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 585 Collections and/or Records:

Sister Bertha Faller, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FALLBERT
Scope and Contents

Includes a personal data sheet, brief biographies, photocopied vows, select community and research correspondence about her, prayer cards, notes, and photographs of both her and her embroidery and textile work. Also includes a small piece of embroidery in the shape of a crown.

Dates: 1888-1999
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Bonaventure Gierl, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GIERBONA
Scope and Contents

This collection includes biographical information and personal papers. It includes photographs, correspondence and community notes, obituaries and funeral materials, jubilee materials, professional teaching applications and certifications, a personal data sheet, ministry lists, transcripts and grade reports, and prayer cards of and from family and friends.

Dates: 1911-2004
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Callista Kaley, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-KALECALL
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biograhical information and personal papers. Biographical information includes materials such as a personal data sheet, a diploma, jubilee worship aids, photographs, and teaching certificates. Personal papers contain materials from Sister's personal life as a woman religious, and her professional life as musician, teacher, and music instructor. Materials related to her personal life include her father's citation from the American Legion, her academic transcripts,...
Dates: 1935-2025
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Camilla Hanley, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HANLCAMI
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a personal data sheet, community obituaries/biographies, a research note on her life, and a letter regarding archival research into Sister's burial.

Dates: 1892-1989
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Carolyn Glach, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GLACCARO
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biograhical information and personal papers. Biographical information includes photographs, professional certifications, ministry lists, nearest of kin, jubilee and funeral materials, and a power of attorney form. Personal papers include a selection of correspondence, including one letter written in Solvenian by her mother about Sister's entrance into the community, transcripts and grade reports, and a folder of funeral and news articles relating to her family...
Dates: c. 1915-2005
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Denise Fitzgerald, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FITZDENI
Scope and Contents

This collection includes general biographical information on Sister Denise Fitzgerald, OSB, such as photocopied vow sheets, as personal data sheet, and ministry lists, as well as selection of news articles, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1966-1998
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Donata Gantzer, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GANTDONA
Scope and Contents

This collection includes only a personal data sheet, a list of those buried in Lakeside, and community biographies/obituaries. The monastery holds no canonical documents regarding Sister Donata.

Dates: c. 1910-1993
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Dorothy Van Alstyne, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-VANADORO
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 1 hanging file of biographical information and personal data and 1 box of personal papers. The box contains Sr. Dorothy Van Alstyne's diplomas, educational certificates, and awards. There is information about her family roots in Canajoharie, New York, a letter to Sr. Dorothy from her father which includes a poem he wrote for her mother on their 34th wedding anniversary. There are samples of her writing from her novitiate year, a manual of accounting practices for...
Dates: 1940-2012
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Ebba Kriegleder, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-KRIEEBBA
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of limited biographical data. It includes a personal data sheet, community obituaries and short biographies, phototcopies of news clippings announcing Sister's death, photographs, and a photocopy of a document written in a German cursive (possibly a vow sheet or sacramental certificate) dated 1884.

Dates: circa 1884-1944
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Edith Hohm, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HOHMEDIT
Scope and Contents

This collection includes only a sparse personal data sheet and a brief community obituary.

Dates: 1882
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

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