Douay-Rheims Pocket Bible, Burgundy Leather Flexcover

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The Douay-Rheims Bible is an English translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, a version universally used in the Church for over 1500 years, meticulously translated from the original Hebrew and Greek by St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420)

This new edition of the venerable Douay-Rheims Bible is a complete reprinting of the Challoner edition. Features include:

• Imprimatur by James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore
• Gold-edged pages
• Double ribbon bookmark
• Completely re-typset for clarity, to faithfully reproduce the original 1899 edition
• 11 Color Re-drawn maps of Israel and the Temple from the 1911 edition
• 32 woodcut prints of biblical scenes
• Family register
• Historical and Chronological index of the Old and New Testaments
• Table of references for Catholic doctrine
• Table of readings for the pre-Vatican II Mass for all Sundays, major feasts and saints' feasts
• Individually boxed

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