Archives of the Monastery of St. Clare of Jerusalem
Reference | JM-MSCJ/7 |
Title | Sister Colette's des Cinq Plaies box. |
Dates | Undated |
Level of description | File |
Extend and medium | 1 box |
Repository | Monastery of St. Clare of Jerusalem (MSCJ) |
Name of creator(s) | Poor Clares of Jerusalem (PCJ) |
Description | Numerous active and passive correspondence from Sister Colette des Cinq plagues mixed with documentation (testimonies, notes from the correspondence and any writings about her, plans) about the life of Hélène Roux, Sister Colette des Cinq plies. The notes are gathered in sub-folders concerning his childhood, his journey, his vocation (I. the divine call before the Tabernacle, II. the mission of 1856 and the R. P. Jobert, III. the journey from the Grandcombe to Saint Claire de Crest, IV. the journey to Ars is decided, V. the curé d'Ars, VI. departure for Crest (Drôme) in May 1859), the monastery of Crest and the community in 1859 (description), the novitiate 1859-1864, Crest, the tasks she filled (laundry, robière, nun), the departure of Crest, mistress of novices 1866-1876, his religious life (general remarks, readings), his departure to the Holy Land, Nazareth, Jerusalem, the Jerusalem community from 1889 to 1912, his golden wedding, his last moments, his general context (notable events - death of President Félix Faure). The documentation was arranged by indexing material words in order to write a biography of which the first pages remain (27 pieces). |
Language of material | French |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/sister-colettes-des-cinq-plaies-box?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-MSCJ |
Title | Archives of the Monastery of St. Clare of Jerusalem |
Covering dates | 1884-2016 |
Dates Start | 1881 |
Dates End | 2016 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | Contents of a wardrobe, a top cabinet (former hatter), a ragpicker; about 6 linear meters. |
Repository | Monastery of St. Clare of Jerusalem (MSCJ) |
Name of creator(s) | Poor Clares of Jerusalem (PCJ) |
Description | It should be noted that the Poor Clares are a cloistered and not an apostolic order, so the monastery's interactions with the world are limited. The community has never maintained a school or dispensary: the monastery's archives reflect this life of enclosure. |
Accruals | The fonds is not closed. |
System of arrangement | This document was prepared by Emeline Rotolo and Emmanuelle Giry, archivists at the National Archives, then on an archival mission as part of the Open Jerusalem Archive research project, under the supervision and with the expert advice of Sister Maria Chiara. These archives are kept in a room specifically dedicated to archives within the monastery of St. Clare from which they originate; apart from the so-called episode of exile (exile of the community in Egypt during the First World War), the community has not moved. In view of the working conditions and the very short time available for this mission (a single working day to be devoted to the archives of the Poor Clares), it was decided not to classify the archives as such but to carry out a detailed topographical survey. The organization of the following collection is therefore organized by places of physical preservation of the documents in the archiving room of the St. Clare's Convent in Jerusalem; it is therefore not surprising to find an organization by furniture, then numbered shelves from bottom to top. A work of fine reclassification and redesign of the listed funds still remains to be done. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Monastery of St. Clare of Jerusalem (MSCJ) |
Finding aids | Archives des clarisses du monastère Sainte-Claire de Jérusalem, Récolement topographique, Établi par Emeline Rotolo et Emmanuelle Giry, archivistes aux Archives nationales, Première édition électronique, Archives nationales, Paris, 2017 |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Archivist's notes | Authors : Emeline Rotolo, Emmanuelle Giry (with the help of sister Maria Chiara) |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/archives-of-the-monastery-of-st-clare-of-jerusalem?sf_culture=en |