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This is a record in pictures and words of contemporary monastic life in rural northern Virginia. On land bordered to the east by the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains, and to the north by West Virginia, the twenty-five monks of Holy Cross Abbey follow the sixth-century Rule of Saint Benedict as it has been lived in the Cistercian tradition since the eleventh century.

This portrait brings wider recognition to the life and work of the Abbey, supporting the values embodied there.

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The portfolio consists of twelve original 8 x 10" photographs by Lance Hidy, eight black and white silver prints and four color Cibachromes, signed on the verso, in 12 x 14" overmats.

There is a forty-page 12" x 14" text centered on Carolyn Coman's interviews with members of the Holy Cross Abbey community, with introductory essays by the Cistercian monks Thomas Merton, Flavian Burns, and Benedict Simmonds.

Handmade portfolio boxes by Élan Bindery, full natural cotton and linen sailcloth covers with black Iris cloth lining, Abbey emblem stamped on cover, and stamped spine titling.

Text set in Bembo and Albertus types and printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler on Zerkall-Bütten paper.

Produced in an edition limited to two hundred numbered and fifty lettered copies.

 


A limited number of sets of 'Conversatio' are still available, for $1,500.00 a set. All the money from the sale of these wonderful portfolios goes to the Abbey; Joslin Hall Rare Books is happy to be able to assist the Abbey by providing our help shipping these portfolios.

If you would like to order a portfolio, please call us at 413-247-5080,
or email office@joslinhall.com

If you would like to know more about 'Conversatio', see the illustrations, and read about the contributors, please click here to go to the Abbey's website devoted to this book.

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