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Benedictine nuns

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 585 Collections and/or Records:

Sister Praxedes Gmeiner, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GMEIPRAX
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a personal data sheet, a prayer card and negative of the prayer card's portrait, community obituary/biography, and ministry lists (extrapolated from history photocopies, etc.).

Dates: 1919-1993
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Regina Esser, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-ESSEREGI
Scope and Contents Includes a personal data sheet, biographies, familial information and research correspondence, photographs and negatives of her and her family, lists of teaching assignments, and photocopied news articles and baptismal records. Also includes her handwritten account of the founding of the Benedictine community in Canon City, and an invitiation to a 1993 founders day celebration at Saint Scholastica Academy in Canon City, honoring her family specifically for their service to the early...
Dates: 1892-2001
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Relindis Jacob, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-JACORELI
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, ministry lists, biographical articles and interview notes, nearest of kin, obituaries, jubilee and funeral materials, and photographs. Also included is an article by former student Rudolph Unger remembering Sister, photocopied news clippings primarily pertaining to her jubilee anniversaries, a photograph of a metal plaque honoring her for 25 years of service to St. Joseph Parish, and an illustrated...
Dates: c.1932-1974
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Rita Cascia Hildenbrand, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HILDRITA
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of basic biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, a photograph, community obituaries, community correspondence regarding her health and the circumstances of her death, and research notes from a trip to the Nauvoo Priory Archive regarding her biographical details.

Dates: c. 1911-1992
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Rita Geary, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GEARRITA
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a personal data sheet, photographs, community obituaries, and notes regarding the circumstances of her death. Several of these notes indicate that Sister was initially incorrectly diagnosed and sent home by her doctor despite reporting severe pain, which ultimately contributed to her death shortly after.

Dates: c. 1886-1993
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Rosemary Klesnor, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-KLESROSE
Scope and Contents

This collection includes only a personal data sheet.

Dates: 1957
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Ruth Gallagher, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GALLRUTH
Scope and Contents This collection includes biographical information and personal papers. In her papers are transcripts, limited correspondence, ephemera such as prayer cards, postcards, and handmade linen and ribbon bookmarks, Jubilee and funeral materials, obituaries, and compiled community notes. Also included are biographical information such as a personal data sheet, nearest of kin, ministry lists, a DePaul University degree, a teaching certification, and photocopied sacramental and birth records....
Dates: 1908-1992
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Scholastica Hrusovsky, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HRUSSCHO
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biographical information and personal papers. Biographical information includes a photocopied baptismal certificate, a death certificate, a personal data sheet, ministry lists, a DePaul University diploma and convocation booklet, a certificate from the Theological Institute, Illinois teaching certificates, photographs, jubilee and funeral materials, and more. Personal papers include teaching contracts, limited correspondence to, from, and about her,...
Dates: 1898-1992
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Scholastica Junk, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-JUNKSCHO
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, a note on the spelling of her surname, photographs of her and her gravestone, and various community obituaries. One obituary is handwritten in German, and was translated into English by Sister Antoinette Vogel. Also included is archival research correspondence the bulk of which is between community archivist Sister Vivian Ivantic and Sister Scholastica's extended family members and pertains to Sister's...
Dates: c. 1865-2000
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

Sister Sheila Healy, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HEALSHEI
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of biographical information. It includes transcripts, a personality test, ministry lists, nearest of kin, photographs, and a personal data sheet.

Dates: 1955-1968
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives

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