The next presentation of the Chicago Benedictine Oblates annual lecture series will feature Christine Schenk, CSJ. Christine is the author of the award-winning book, Crispina and Her Sisters, which explores the visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead and provides an in-depth review of women’s history in the first four centuries of Christianity.

Chris has also worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families, a community organizer, a writer-researcher, and the founding director of an international church reform organization,
FutureChurch. Currently she writes an award-winning column “Simply Spirit” for the National Catholic Reporter.

The presentation will include power point images and a book-signing afterwards.

The lecture will be presented in St. Scholastica Chapel.

For directions to the monastery, click here. Near public transportation. Free parking.

RSVP with Sister Benita Coffey, OSB: 773.764.2413 x 327