 Mount Saviour Monastery: Pine City, New YorkMount Saviour Monastery is an autonomous monastery within the American Cassinese Congregation founded outside Elmira, New York by Fr. Damasus Winzen and three companions in 1951. The monks share equal opportunities and equal burdens of work, study and prayer. They utilize 250 acres of the land for raising sheep and producing market lambs, yarn and pelt products while many other acres serve as a woodlot. There is also a book and gift shop. Members of other faiths come to share the peace and quiet and to pray with the monks. Concern that the door is open in welcome to those who wish to attend St.Benedict's "school of the Lord's service" has largely determined the physical development of the monastery's hilltop site. The chapel is an octagon with the altar placed in the middle. In the center of the crypt stands a 14th century statue of Our Lady, Queen of Peace. 
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