Monastic and religious life of women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Sister Mildred Callahan, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-CALLMILD
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal data sheet, archival notations, personal prayer cards, obituaries, and photographs.
Dates:
1899-1945
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Mildred Scheetz, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-SCHEMILD
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a hanging file of biographical information and personal data and 1 box of personal papers. Correspondence is related to letters with family, community, and ministry, including two pieces of V-mail from her brother Frank. The biographies were prepared for varying purposes and based on interviews with Sister Mildred Scheetz. One is a homily given in 1986 by her former student, a deacon at Saint Joseph Parish in Killeen, Texas- Reverend Mr. E. Robert...
Dates:
1899-2009
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Mildred Zember, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-ZEMBMILD
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several letters, thank you cards, correspondence outlining her journeys to different ministry assignments, ministry materials from Queen of the Rosary parish, various notebooks, the Rule of Saint Benedict, and a religious diary of quotations and notations. Also included are two diplomas (DePaul University and Loyola University) several certificates, recognitions, religious education pamphlets, parish bulletins, evangelization resources, manuals, and worship aids. ...
Dates:
1931-2015
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Miriam Russell, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-RUSSMIRI
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...
Dates:
circa 1910-2009
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Miriam Wilson, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-WILSMIRI
Dates:
1926-2011
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Modesta Gmeiner, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GMEIMODE
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of biographical information and personal papers. It includes a personal data sheet, transcripts, degrees, ministry lists, funeral and jubilee materials, prayer cards, and newspaper clippings. No folder of photographs is included, but a single picture of her can be seen in File Folder 1 attached to her community biography/obituary. It also includes a large side rosary donated by Sister Ruth in 1988, one of many that Sister made for each group of new...
Dates:
c. 1903-1994
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Monica Dippert, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-DIPPMONI
Scope and Contents
This collection includes brief biographies, photographs, a personal data sheet, a prayer card, and a xerox copy of her feature in "In Memoriam."
Dates:
circa 1930-1979
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Nan Gold, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GOLDNAN
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a personal data sheet, personal correspondence, a commencement brochure, a photograph, Reception and Profession Worship Aids, a transcript, a professional contract between the Lilac Tree and the Benedictine Sisters, and correspondence and reports regarding Lilac Tree, the center for divorcing women she founded and directed. A highlight is a poem she wrote in 1987 entitled "Stars at Lauds: Kentucky."
Dates:
1987-1994
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Noreen Ferrari, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FERRNORE
Scope and Contents
This collection contains biographical information and personal papers.
Dates:
1976-1990
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Sister Ottilia Hoeveler,OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HOEVOTTI
Dates:
1854 - circa 1994
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives