MPR: Victoria Young on the modern creation of Saint John's Abbey Church

MPR News features Victoria Young, author of 'Saint John's Abbey Church'

Young_Saint coverThe 1950s was a time of great liturgical change in the Catholic Church. It was also a transformative era for architecture, with modern designs springing up in the post-war
building boom.

So when the monks of the Abbey of Saint John the Baptist set about building a new church on their campus in Collegeville, Minn., they decided to embrace the changing times. Working with an untested religious designer, Marcel Breuer, they created a modernist sacred space with attention to detail from floor to furniture, to altar, to ceiling.

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