Remembering RSCJ Mothers of our past
By Michael Pera, Archives Assistant for the Society of the Sacred Heart United States – Canada Province
May 12, 2023
“Mother” is a particularly resonant term for the Sacred Heart family.
By Michael Pera, Archives Assistant for the Society of the Sacred Heart United States – Canada Province
May 12, 2023
“Mother” is a particularly resonant term for the Sacred Heart family.
By Lyn Osiek, RSCJ, Provincial Archivist of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province
August 16, 2022
The recent terrible flooding in Florissant, Missouri, is the continuation of a pattern that goes back centuries.
The United States – Canada Archives worked with Patricia Wolfe, alumna of Newton College of the Sacred Heart (closed in 1974), to create a website about the school and Religious of the Sacred Heart.
By Mary Kubli, RSCJ; Edited by Lyn Osiek, RSCJ
October 20, 2020
October is American Archives Month and so we present excerpts from the United States – Canada Archives, located in St. Louis, Missouri.
By Lyn Osiek, RSCJ, Archivist for the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province
May 15, 2020
In the world of the first Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) in the United States, but also in their former lives in Europe, there was constant threat of cholera, and in tropical climates, of yellow fever. No one knew how either was communicated.
By Michael Pera, Assistant Archivist Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province
April 14, 2020
In seeking to understand and grapple with the current outbreak of COVID-19, many have understandably reached for the worst pandemic of the 20th century, the 1918 Spanish Influenza.
Recently I received a request from a gentleman in Dublin, Ireland, for information about two young women who had attended Eden Hall for one year, 1860-1861. Their names were Katherine (Kate) Hewitt and her adopted sister, Catherine Dunn. His interest was primarily in Kate, who he informed me “had a tragic love affair with Major General John F. Reynolds, who was killed at Gettysburg.”
In my last post, I described the actual work of digitizing Sophie’s letters that I did while I was in Rome last summer. It was a great experience and, for me, there was a very rewarding by-product of that work. When I wrote of Sophie’s maddening habit of writing in the margins of her letters, I mentioned last month that I often had to refer to the volumes of transcriptions that exist because it was difficult to determine the sequence of her “postscripts.” She wrote wherever there was space on the paper.
Ten weeks at the motherhouse in Rome – a grace. Ten weeks at the motherhouse in Rome working in the general archives – a gift. Ten weeks in Rome digitizing the letters of Saint Madeleine Sophie – priceless!
I was asked by the General Council to go to Rome this summer for two reasons: to be a companion to Margaret Phelan, RSCJ, when the rest of the community left for retreat, language school, vacation, the Canadian Assembly, the meeting of the Latin American provincials, etc. and, at the same time, to work in the general archives.
Ten weeks at the motherhouse in Rome – a grace. Ten weeks at the motherhouse in Rome working in the general archives – a gift. Ten weeks in Rome digitizing the letters of Saint Madeleine Sophie – priceless!
I was asked by the General Council to go to Rome this summer for two reasons: to be a companion to Margaret Phelan, RSCJ, when the rest of the community left for retreat, language school, vacation, the Canadian Assembly, the meeting of the Latin American provincials, etc. and, at the same time, to work in the general archives.