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During this visitation, Sister Kristine Anne Harpenau, prioress, led the community through a discernment process to determine the dependent priory's next superior.

This folder contains indexes of both living and deceased sisters from 1867 to present sorted in several ways. See "Finding Aids" for separate sorts.

Completed survey form and cover letter, Ferdinand, 1988

Sister Mary Victor Kercher was one of the founding members of the Guatemala foundation, serving as first superior.

This print was given to Sister Joella Kidwell and the Community at the time Maria Candelaria came to the monastery to spend a year. Her life was in danger in Guatemala.

Dateline, correspondences, photograph, Ferdinand, 1963

Sister Mary Victor Kercher and Sister Judy Yunker give commentaries on and history of the monastery's foreign missions, Guatemala and Peru.

Sisters Mary Victor Kercher, Mary Baehl, and Mary Ann Verkamp attended this conference.

Requests to join foreign-mission efforts date to 1966 when Sister Julia Goebel, O.S.B., was prioress. In this file is a copy of MISSION HANDBOOK 1987-1988, published by the U.S. Catholic Mission Association.

This committee grew out of the renewal committee structure.

List of institutions and collection contents, photographs, founding information, Ferdinand, 1879-1993

This collection was sent to the Monastery Archives from the Ferdinand Benedictines who founded and served at Monasterio Reina De La Cruz, in Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The files contain records of legal documents forming the coorporate association, deeds to property, correspondence with the motherhouse, formation of new members, daily governance and finances, various publications and liturgical books, ministries, and history.

This collection was sent to the Monastery Archives from the Ferdinand Benedictines who founded and served at Monasterio Paz de la Cruz in Morropon, Peru. The files contain records of legal documents, deeds, personal letters, reports, financial records, academic theses of native sisters, published papers, books, newspaper clippings (copies),

At this Chapter Meeting, the dependent priories of Guatemala and Durham, North Carolina, were discussed. These cassettes include AC0241, AC0242, AC0243.

Sister Mary Victor Kercher was appointed first superior of Ferdinand's Guatemalan mission.

AIM is an organization serving monastic missionaries throughout the world. Sister Carlita Koch initiated the monastery's interest in AIM in 1976 (remembrance in file). Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand is a member of AIM.. This file contains AIM publications and other information about and from the organization. The AIM publications retained in archives contains notes, photos, activities involving Ferdinand Benedictine sisters.