First 5O years of the College of Saint Benedict (CSB). At first the college shared the facilities of the academy in Cecilia and Gertrude Halls. Cecilia Hall, built in 1881, is described in the 1926 College Bulletin: "Five dining halls with service rooms occupy the basement floor, five reception rooms the first floor, seventeen music practice rooms and five teacher's studios the second, while the third was remodeled in 1924 into a residence hall with an infirmary area. The private rooms are furnished with vanity dressers, tables and settees; each has a large private wardrobe and hot and cold water. A trained nurse is at all times in charge of the perfectly equipped infirmary. A secluded cottage (infirmary/guest house) on the campus, also in charge of a trained nurse, is used in case of contagious illness." Gertrude Hall, built in 1898, is also lauded in the 1926 College Bulletin: "In the basement is the service room fitted with the most convenient shampooing apparatus, irons, electric attachements, etc.--also cloak rooms, locker rooms, a stationery store, a confectionery store, and a kitchenette fully equipped for the serving of light lunches or 'spreads.' On the first floor are administration offices and the chemical and physical laboratories. . . On the second floor is the botanical laboratory and classrooms, well-lighted and each furnished with a special library open to the use of the students. The third floor provides airy pleasant dormitories for those who do not wish to rent private rooms." However, many of the activities of the college centered in the two new buildings, Teresa Hall and Sacred Heart Chapel, which were as up-to-date as Benedicta Arts Center and Regina Hall seem to us now - perhaps more so. Teresa Hall was the height of luxury! It had a library on 1st floor, an auditorium/study hall on 2nd floor, a rotunda (residence area) on 3rd and 4th floors (where some rooms had private baths and every bedroom had hot and cold water) and a gymnasium on the ground floor. (Gable, OSB) The chapel inspired by new architecture, very moderate baroque with its Carrara statues and Sienna marble pillars from Italy (and majestic, granite pillars from Rockville, MN), was a perfect example of its baroque type -- Newman's favorite. However, the college faculty was concerned about the later interior decorating of the chapel. In 1958, members of the art department, Sisters Johanna Becker and Jacquelyn Dubay as art consultants, helped the community restore some of the chapel's original lightness which had seemed so right in the beginning. (Gable, OSB)
First 50 years of the College of Saint Benedict (CSB). For those who wish to study painting, china decorating, or crafts, the art studios offer special inspiration. Sun-flooded rooms with paneled ceilings, richly carved, a wide fire-place with hand-painted tiles, rare statuary, including pieces from Beuron--all contribute an atmosphere calculated to inspire the student with love for her work (College Bulletins).
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). New Munich began with a few small buildings built by two men, Burns and Sutton, in 1855. They also ran a small "wayside" inn for the stagecoach that ran north-south through this part of the county. The town gradually settled around the church built by the German Catholics. In 1879 three sisters came to New Munich to teach in the district school at the request of the pastor. The trustees and the people did not agree with this decision and hired a lay teacher. The pastor then opened a parochial school in the church basement, but attendance was very small and leaders of the antagonism made it almost impossible for the sisters to live there. Despite the set-backs, the sisters won the good will of the people so that the following year the school opened with over 100 children enrolled (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Olsenius, page 120; Jaakkola and Frericks, page 77).
Art and Needlework Department, 1883-1968, Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota
Date Created:
1883 - 1968
Description:
The patterns of the fish, most of which are perforated, were stamped for embroidery onto liturgical vestments and accouterments. Many of the patterns are original designs of members of the Art Needlework Department of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Art Needlework Department, 1883-1968, Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota
Date Created:
1883 - 1968
Description:
The patterns of the symbols of passion, most of which are perforated, were stamped for embroidery onto liturgical vestments and accouterments. Many of the patterns are original designs of members of the Art Needlework Department of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Family Films, Inc. (Holy Angels Church, St. Cloud, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1952 - 1954
Description:
"Family Recreation" features the Spoden family having fun with Father Hoppe as a guest in their home. "Family Recreation" is one of thirty-nine films in the "Christ in the Home" series created in the early 1950s by Family Films for a weekly television series for Channel 11 (WMIN-TV) in the Twin Cities. Each program is based on a feast day, special observance or noteworthy Sunday in the liturgical year. Family Films, Inc. was formed in 1952 and operated out of a studio in Holy Angels Church, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The production team includes Father Edward Ramacher, photography; Father Vincent Huebsch, sound; Father Gordon Mycue, program director; Arnie Pung, KFAN engineer; Dick and Don DeZurik, Cathedral High School students who help with tapes in the library; Sisters Marold Kornovich and Arlynn Haan, teachers at Saint Augustine School; Edmund Linnemann, organist.
Early ventures in St. Joseph, Minnesota (1880-1890). Students and faculty of the first academy class in the Haarman Building (1880-1881) are identified as follows. Faculty upper row: Sisters 1. Flavia Pokowsky, 2. Magdelen Enste, 3. Elizabeth Will (who later became Sister Julia), 4. Bede Linnemann. Faculty - 2nd row: Sister Anotolia Langsford. Faculty - 3rd row: Sister Irminia Kretzer. Students - 2nd row: Anna Burrell, Cecilia Beck, S. Farrell, Katie Rovischer, Emma Otto, Aggie Zingerly, Rose Weiner, Carrie Capser, Iona Owens, Lilly Miller, Katherine Riesgraf, Anna Kapsner. Students - lower 3 rows: Antonette Jennings, Virgina Gerard (later Sister Anastasia), Lena Schlick, Anna Waschenberger, Mary Phillip, Ella Egan, Jennie Kennedy, Katie Loso, Aloysia Zingerly, Adela Jennings, Clara Pottgieser, Lorrina Maurin, Tillie Maurin, Lizzie Beck, Josie Kapser. Because St. Agnes Academy was not flourishing in St. Cloud, Mother Aloysia Bath and the community decided in 1879 to build a new boarding academy at St. Joseph. When the basement walls were nearly completed, the cold weather halted construction; lack of funds prevented more building for another 2 years. The next prioress, Mother Scholastica Kerst, closed the St. Agnes Academy in St. Cloud and rented the Haarman Building across from the church and convent in St. Joseph to open a select boarding academy, St. Joseph's Academy. The Haarman Building was rented for only one year. Because the school was so successful, the earlier plans for a new academy building were immediately resumed and Cecilia Hall was rapidly completed for use in 1882. When the building was blessed, St. Joseph's Academy was renamed St. Benedict's Academy (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives ; McDonald, pages 70-71, 99-100).
Family Films, Inc. (Holy Angels Church, St. Cloud, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1952 - 1954
Description:
"Holy Saturday" shows the Hennes family coloring Easter eggs and discussing their symbolism. Other Easter customs and symbols are also explained. Father Laky, attended by servers John Weber, Owen Sauer and Ron Post, is shown blessing the Easter candle which occurs at the Holy Saturday services. "Holy Saturday" is one of thirty-nine films in the "Christ in the Home" series created in the early 1950s by Family Films for a weekly television series for Channel 11 (WMIN-TV) in the Twin Cities. Each program is based on a feast day, special observance or noteworthy Sunday in the liturgical year. Family Films, Inc. was formed in 1952 and operated out of a studio in Holy Angels Church, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The production team includes Father Edward Ramacher, photography; Father Vincent Huebsch, sound; Father Gordon Mycue, program director; Arnie Pung, KFAN engineer; Dick and Don DeZurik, Cathedral High School students who help with tapes in the library; Sisters Marold Kornovich and Arlynn Haan, teachers at Saint Augustine School; Edmund Linnemann, organist.
First 50 years of the College of Saint Benedict (CSB). The College Bulletin of 1930 describes the library as follows: "A library of 16,700 volumes provides adequate supplementary reading for the departments of science, literature and the arts. . . Besides the main library, a magazine annex has been recently equipped in which there are bound volumes of the best magazines. At least fifty current magazines may be found on the desks in the reading room. The first purpose of the library is to meet the needs of the students of the various departments, but the utilitarian has not been allowed to exclude the aesthetic. The reading room is surrounded by low oak book cases and settees. A fire-place, decorated with hand-painted tiles, numerous sofa cushions, and statuary, contributes to the culture and comfort of the students who frequent the library."
St. Cloud Methodist Episcopal Church, founded 1857, was built 1911 and dedicated May 24, 1914. It was located at the corner of Fifth Ave. and Third Street South. Constructed of St. Cloud granite and brick it was called a "20th Century Church" and was 54 feet by 80 feet and cost $24,000 to build. Later named First Methodist it is currently First United Methodist Church. Written on the back: "Wells, Minnesota, Oct. 2, 1915, Mr. Lyman F. Morris, Deloit, Iowa, Crawford Co., Dear Father, We are to move to St. Bend.(?), next week. We are busy packing. P.S. All well. Lovingly Will."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Noll, Reverand John F.; Grunenwald, Reverand Charles L., editors
Date Created:
1916-12
Description:
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
Noll, Reverand John F.; Grunenwald, Reverand Charles L., editors
Date Created:
1916-06
Description:
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
