The monastery has a rich library with about 20 000 books and an archive fond. Among the many famous names of Croatian culture and history in Zaostrog lived and worked one of the most famous Fra Andrew Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet, writer and philosopher, born in Brist 1704th - Died in Zaostrog 1760th, and Father Ivan Despot (1886). Croatian knjižebnmik and poet. AK Miošic-"Old Man Milovan" himself bazivao in Zaostrog was educated, and entered the Franciscan order, stvoriuo all his literary works, died in a convent, and was buried. Often the monastery in Zaostrog called "Kacic monastery." The monastery also contains a photo gallery of one of the most famous Croatian painter Mladen Binds born in Brist in 1916. Year.