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About Us
Founded in 1977, we are a monastic community for women of the Orthodox Church in America. We have been situated since 1983 in Otsego County in the scenic upper-Catskill region of New York State. We are members of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce and are honored to be part of Central New York's "Leatherstocking Country."
Within the monastery's framework of daily liturgical and personal prayer, we work as farmers, artists and craftsmen. We offer the result of our own labors, here and in our regular catalog that goes out through the regular mail once a year. If you would like to receive our regular mail catalog (as well as our newsletters) and are not already on our mailing list, send us your address by clicking here.We also offer a few selected items that are not products of our monastery or farm, such as embroideries from Palestine and recordings of liturgical music. Some are offered only through our Online Catalog.
Twice a year we host Pilgrimage Days: Our Patronal Feast of the Myrrhbearers on the second weekend after Pascha and our Fall Pilgrimage on the second Saturday of October. For more information, see Annual Monastery Events.
“The Myrrhbearers are the women who went to the Tomb of Christ carrying myrrh and other spices to anoint His dead body. On finding instead an empty tomb, they were the first to preach the Resurrection. In the Orthodox Church they are called "Apostles to the Apostles; the First Preachers of the Resurrection."
Design by Dick Fish, with T.J. Leach. Web site constructed by Volha Charnysh.