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Saint John's Abbey

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Benedictine Priory, St. Cloud, Minnesota
Benedictine Priory, St. Cloud, Minnesota

The Saint John's Abbey Archives, founded in 1871, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public materials that show the history of the Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, from 1856 to the present. The collection preserves the life and history of the abbey and its members, through manuscript collections, letters, diaries, journals, publications, clippings, photographs, audiotapes, films, oral histories, and liturgical and spiritual materials. The Saint John's Abbey Archives project for the Minnesota Digital Library shows the Catholic culture and people of rural Central Minnesota from 1872 to 1908.

Contact Information

Saint John's Abbey
2900 Abbey Plaza
P.O. Box 2015
Collegeville, MN 56321
United States

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