Saint John's Abbey

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.