The Library of Holy Cross Monastery welcomes your gifts. Your generosity is helping us to build this unique library.

Ways to give:

Donations to the Library Fund:
– New books can cost $50.00 or $100.00 or even more. Your generous gift helps us purchase new and recent volumes.

Gifts of books:
You may have one or more of the books we are actively seeking. Your generous gift finds a home and readers for your books.
– Books from your own collection.
– Individual books purchased for the Library, from an online or other bookseller.
– You may want to donate part or all of your library to the Monastery.

Our Address:
The Library, Holy Cross Monastery, 1615 Route 9W, P.O. Box 99, West Park NY 12493.

Titles we are seeking:

Many books are difficult to find or out of print. Here are some we would like to add to our collection:

Monastic History:
• Bloch, H.: Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages. (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).
• Conant, K.J.: Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture. (London, 1959).
• Elkins, Sharon K.: Holy Women of Twelfth Century England. (Chapel Hill, NS, 1988).
• Janelle, P.: The Catholic Reformation. (London, 1971).
• Leyser, Henrietta: Hermits and the New Monasticism. (London, 1984).
• Moorman, J.R.H.: A History of the Franciscan Order. (Oxford, 1968).
• Oetjen, J.: An American Abbot: Boniface Wimmer, OSB, 1809-1887. (Wash., DC, 1997).
• Wilkinson, A. The community of the Resurrection – a centenary history. (London, 1992).