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1. University chaplain, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1985
- Description:
- Sister Mary Lamski welcomes University of Minnesota students to a service.
- Contributing Institution:
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Color photographs
2. Mother Aloysia Bath, OSB and nuns at Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis, MNinnesota
- Date Created:
- 1880?
- Description:
- Early years in St. Joseph, Minnesota (1863-1880). Mother Aloysia (Helen) Bath, the first American-born prioress of St. Benedict's Convent, was born in Addison, WI in 1849. Helen entered the community of the Sisters of St. Agnes in Baron, WI, in 1864 and was given the name Sister Agatha. She transferred to the community in St. Joseph, MN in 1871, changed her name to Aloysia, and professed vows there in 1875. Two years later, she was appointed prioress of the community in St. Joseph by Abbot Rupert Seidenbusch, to fill out Mother Antonia Herman's term. Mother Aloysia resigned shortly before her term ended. However, nine years later, she was elected by the community to serve another term as prioress. Though of frail health, Mother Aloysia led the community in beginning the construction of a new convent and academy building in St. Joseph, in accepting four new schools in Minnesota, the American Indian mission in White Earth, MN, and a school in Bismarck. ND. She was an experienced teacher who had been in charge of several schools, including the large school in St. Joseph's Parish in Minneapolis. Mother Aloysia's greatest efforts were spent staffing schools in the face of school controversies and in developing a teacher-training program in the community so that young sisters would be sent out as certified teachers. Her contemplative spirit inspired the sisters to work for a balance in their work and prayer (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 73-78, 89).
- Contributing Institution:
- Saint Benedict's Monastery
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Stereographs
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