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Monastic and religious life of women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:

Sister Innocence Distel, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-DISTINNO
Scope and Contents

This collection includes both personal papers and biographical information. The box of personal papers includes Jubilee papers, correspondence, educational records, familial information, an address book, and several handcrafted items.

Dates: 1908-1995

Sister Isabell Forney, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FORNISAB
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 2 folders of biographical information. The first folder contains a personal data sheet and a photocopied Baptismal record. The second folder includes short community biographies and obituaries, accounts of her illness and death in letters written to the community, news articles announcing her death, prayer cards, a third-class linen relic (a piece of linen touched to a relic of St. Jude), photographs, and archival research correspondence.

Dates: c. 1890-1980

Sister Jane Reilly, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-REILJANE
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials regarding her biographical and personal data, as well as two boxes of personal papers. Box 1 contains material related to Sr. Jane Reilly, OSB's early education, her work as a high school teacher and a librarian, as well as her work in the Chicago Public Library. The dedication booklet for the Fine Arts Building of Saint Scholastica High School was written by Sr. Jane and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB and contains photographs and descriptions of...
Dates: 1933-2020

Sister Janelle Brence, OSB papers

 Collection — Folder OSBCHI-D-BRENJANE-0
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-BRENJANE
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a personal data sheet, next of kin listing, educational certificates, CPE certification, letters of recommendation, professional contracts, Camp San Benito director assignment, and other ministry assignments.

Dates: 1956-1987

Sister Janet Biersach, OSB papers

 Collection — Folder OSBCHI-D-BIERJANE-0
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-BIERJANE
Scope and Contents

This limited collection includes a personal data sheet and one photograph.

Dates: 1956-1957

Sister Jerome Frede, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FREDJERO
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs, biographical information, and personal papers. Highlights include an example prayer book made for prisoners, her own collaged prayer book, and correspondence with prisoners.

Dates: 1907-1997

Sister Joan Gannon, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-GANNJOAN
Scope and Contents This collection contains 1 hanging file of biographical and personal data, as well as 1 box of personal papers arranged into three series entitled Community life, Correspondence, Academic papers, and Ministry. The three series housed in Box 1 contain materials related to Sr. Joan Gannon’s life in community, including letters she sent to the community from St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada where she studied pastoral ministry. There are several graduate papers, including her Mundelein...
Dates: 1940-2020

Sister Joan Hentges, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-HENTJOAN
Dates: 1945-2021

Sister Joanna Cunningham, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-CUNNJOAN
Scope and Contents

Included in this collection is a personal data sheet, obituaries, funeral prayer cards, a funeral homily, and photographs.

Dates: 1930-1943

Sister Joanna Trapp, OSB papers

 Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-TRAPJOAN
Scope and Contents This collection contains 1 hanging file of biographical information and personal data and 1 box of personal papers. The box contains three folders with Sr. Joanna's high school and university diplomas, samples of her artwork done to enhance community life, as well as documents and correspondence related to community life. There is also a set of spiritual bouquet cards for the prioress Mother Adelaide Rabida (1898-1989) given by Sisters when they were stationed at St. Lambert Parish in...
Dates: 1927-2017