File 2.15 - Congress for Reverend Mothers Benedictine Prioresses , March 19, 1949

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Abbot Primate's address, cablegram to Holy Father, photograph, meeting report, Lisle, 1949

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Content for file: Congress for Reverend Mothers Benedictine Prioresses , March 19, 1949

Typed paper (9.75" x14" paper) Address of the Most Reverend Bernard Kaelin, OSB, Abbot Primate, to the Congress of Reverend Mothers of the Benedictine Motherhouses in the United States and Canada, assembled at Sacred Heart Convent, Lisle, Illinois on St. Joseph's Day (March 19), 1949

Photocopy (9.75" x14" paper) of portrait of Pope Pius XII, and a cablegram sent to the holy father by the Abbot Primate and assembled Benedictine prioresses at Lisle, Illinois, offering prayers to Pope Pius XII on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination

Photocopy of photo of all prioresses in attendance at the congress, with Abbot Primate Bernard Kaelin, names listed below, photo taken March 19, 1949

Typed pages (9.75"x14" paper) Report of the Meeting of the Reverend Mothers of the Benedictine Motherhouses and Priories in the United States and Canada with the Most Reverend Bernard Kaelin, OSB, Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order, for a One-Day Congress at Sacred Heart Convent, Lisle, Illinois, on March 19, 1949

Mother Seraphine Kordes attended this congress. Abbot Primate Bernard Kaelin, O.S.B., addressed the prioresses. Pope Pius XII was the ruling pontiff.