Tiny capsule takes nuns back in time

Description

Creator: Irv Leavitt
Media Type: Newspaper
Item Types: Articles; Photographs
Notes: A time capsule that had been hidden in the facade of the old Sisters of Christian Charity Motherhouse, now Mallinckrodt in the Park condominiums, was opened last week in the presence of several of the order's nuns. Most of the contents of the small box was destroyed by moisture leaving only a crucifix and some religious medals.

Photographs Sisters Phyllis Zierden, Agnette Bengal and Mary Eileen O'Connor, Sister Janice Boyer; Patrick Leary, curator of the Wilmette Historcal Museum
Date of Publication: 4 Oct 2007
Subject(s): Convents
Nuns
Time capsules
Corporate Name(s): Mallinckrodt
Local identifier: Wilmette.News.292018
Language of Item: English
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