About Us

Mission:

Saint John’s Abbey Cemetery provides a burial within the Catholic burial tradition to the greater Saint John’s community.  

That tradition flows out of fundamental tenets of the Catholic faith including:

• The dignity of each human person;
• The importance of baptism into the faith;
• The reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
• The promise of Jesus that his followers will share eternal life;
• The celebration of Eucharist as remembrance and thanksgiving.

Just as in life, we believe that in death the human body deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. We foster a manner of remembering that is enlightened by faith and that views death as a bridge to the Communion of Saints. Our bond with God's people is not broken by death.

Staff: 

Saint John’s Abbey Cemetery Manager
(320) 363-3434
info@saintjohnsabbeycemetery.org

Office hours:

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Central Time
Monday – Friday

Eligibility:

Saint John’s Abbey Cemetery is open to:

• Alumni/ae, employees, and friends of Saint John’s University and Saint John’s Preparatory School
• Employees and friends of Liturgical Press
• Oblates, employees, and friends of Saint John’s Abbey and its apostolates

Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B., Cemetery Fund

Donations to the Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B., Cemetery Fund will be used to assist in the extraordinary projects of the Abbey Cemetery, enhancing its beauty through the planting of trees and shrubs, landscaping work, and the placement of religious art.

Abbot Baldwin served as the sixth Abbot of Saint John’s from 1951 until his retirement in 1971. For the next 20 years, his care for the souls of Saint John’s continued as he tended the Abbey Cemetery as a retired volunteer.  Abbot Baldwin led the monastic community in designing and building the Abbey Church. He had a personal passion for religious art and contemporary religious architecture.    

For more information, contact the cemetery office at (320) 363-3434.

(320) 363-3434 | info@saintjohnsabbeycemetery.org