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Nuns -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Clergy and Religious Printed Material

 Fonds
Identifier: CLR
Scope and Content

Clippings, obituaries, memorial cards, ordination cards, invitations, programs, jubilee booklets, biographical sketches, pamphlets, books, issues of periodicals, musical scores, circulars letters, and correspondence; pertaining to lives of Catholic clergy and religious (bishops, priests, nuns, and brothers) most of them from Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.

Dates: 1830-1964.

Religious Orders of Women Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: ROW
Scope and Content Printed material concerning the Benedictines, Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, Carmelites, Sisters of St. Casimir, Sisters of Charity, Cistercian Nuns, Sisters of St. Clare, Sisters of the Divine Savior, Dominicans, Felician Sisters, Franciscans, Good Shepherd Sisters, Holy Cross Sisters, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit, Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross, Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Sisters, Servants of the...
Dates: 1900s

Sisters of the Living Word Records

 Collection
Identifier: SLW
Abstract This collection contains the records of the Sisters of the Living Word (SLW), a Roman Catholic community of women religious currently based in Des Plaines, Illinois with a focus on advocating for the homeless, immigrants, the environment, and victims of racism and human trafficking. The community was formed in 1975 when ninety sisters, led by foundress Annamarie Cook, branched off from the Sisters of Christian Charity (SCC) to form a new community with a reformed vision for the future of...
Dates: 1842-2021; Majority of material found within 1975-2010s