About Monstrance

A monstrance is the vessel that holds the Blessed Sacrament up to be seen. We took the name because it says what we want to do with the Church's paintings: hold them up, whole, so that what they show can be seen.

What we make

Monstrance Editions prints the sacred masterworks of the Catholic tradition as archival fine-art prints: Four hundred and seventy-six works at present, from Giotto and Duccio to Caravaggio and Zurbarán, each held by a public collection. Every print is made to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag cotton paper in pigment ink, from the museum's own photograph wherever the museum releases one, and printed whole. The materials page says exactly what a print is made of.

Alongside the editions we publish pages for prayer, open to everyone: the Rosary, with its twenty mysteries in Scripture and sacred art, and the traditional prayers in English and Latin. They carry no prices.

The Monstrance app, a companion for the Church's day hour by hour, is in preparation. There is no launch date to announce yet.

How we work

We are a small company on the Mendocino coast of California, founded by Jeff Neumeier. Nothing is printed until it is bought, shipping is included in the price, and a print that arrives damaged is replaced. We hold ourselves to written editorial standards: every fact we print has a named source, and every image is a photograph of a real painting.

How it is made

Every picture here is a photograph of the painting, named with its artist, its date and the museum that holds it, never generated, retouched or repainted; we choose only the crop. In the app, questions of doctrine are answered by the Concordance: software that composes from the Church's own texts, cites them beneath each answer and carries its name, so the texts remain the authority. Bible in a Year is read at the Lectern: software that reads the text aloud in Jeff Neumeier's voice, made from his own recordings. Its chant comes from the Antiphonary: software that sings from the notes of the Church's Vatican edition. We hope to stand, in a small way, with the museums and the artists against the homogenization the Holy Father warned of on 2 October 2026.

Write to us

Questions, corrections, parishes and schools: [email protected]. We read every message.