This month, From the Archives brings you a little change of pace—a quiz! While working with the various files and collections, your archivist has come across what she thinks are interesting tidbits of information regarding our sisters. Some of these items were reminders of things already known while others were totally new. Check your memory bank, rack your brain, and try your luck. For bragging rights, feel free to submit your answers to hnparchives@stellaosf.org.
1. Can you name two sisters who ministered with L’Arche?
2. Do you remember which two sisters ministered in Alaska?
3. Who can name two sisters who served in Guam?
4. Which sister spent time in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan) helping to establish a new congregation of native sisters?
5. S. Clotilde Aertker helped to “refound/reestablish” a congregation of sisters in this country. Which congregation was it?
6. Which sister declined an offer to travel to Outer Mongolia on behalf of the U.S. government to spend a year monitoring the Chinese-Russian conflict there?
7. As a young woman, this sister fled persecution in Nazi Germany, emigrating first to Scotland and then the U.S. where she converted to Catholicism and entered the congregation. Who was she?
8. Another convert, this sister entered the Catholic Church when she was 35 and found her way to the Franciscans a few years later. Who was she?
9. Can you name the sister who (to the best of our knowledge) was the only member of Holy Name Province who was a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces?
10. Can you name the last five general ministers (including the present one)? What do they all have in common?
Stay tuned - answers appear next month!