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Content for file: Correspondences and documents pertaining to Declarations and Constitutions of Women Benedictine Communities in the United States
Typed letter from Mother Pauline, the prioress at St. Joseph's Convent, St. Marys, PA, dated july 28, 1904 to prioresses of other Benedictine convents in the US, in re the declarations sent from Atchison, and asking each prioress to decide what they prefer, what they object to, and what they would like inserted in the draft of the declarations. (Note, the plan here was not to form a congregation, but to have standardized declarations on the Rule of Benedict, so that Bishops could not change them at will, even though the various convents would remain under the bishops)
Typed letter from Mother Pauline to other prioresses, dated August 24, 1904, to prioresses in re the question of what weight Roman approval of the declarations has. Mother Pauline quotes from Abbot Innocent.
Handwritten letter, in German, from Abbot Innocent, dated 22 September 1906, in re the declarations (no translation available)
Envelope postmarked from Atchison, Kansas, 22 Sept. 1904, addressed to Rt. Rev. Abbot Stanislaus, St. Meinrad Abbey, with outline of statutes for Benedictines; other paper appears to be Abbot Stanislaus' comments on the proposed schema
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These are correspondences from Mother Pauline of St. Joseph's Convent, St. Marys, Pennsylvania, and Abbot Innocent, St. Benedict College, Atchison, Kansas.