Large Print Douay-Rheims Bible

Catholics looking for the traditional Catholic Bible in English should look no further!

The Douay-Rheims Bible is an English translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, a version universally used in the Church for over 1500 years, itself meticulously translated from the original Hebrew and Greek by St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420). This edition brings together the very best of three Douay-Rheims Editions The Old and New Testaments - from the 1899 edition published by John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Imprimatur: James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (the whole revised and diligently compared with the latin Vulgate by the Servant of God Bishop Richard Challoner). The Old and New Testaments and Historical and Chronological Index have been beautifully retypeset, faithfully to reproduce the original 1899 Gibbons edition. The text is set in the classic Century Expanded font, which was originally used in the 1899 edition, and has been lovingly typed line by line to represent exactly the original edition. The Family Register pages have also been digitally typeset and redrawn. The text is set in Century ExpandedBT font, size 10.3pt. Maps - from the 1911 edition Eleven coloured maps digitally redrawn by hand and fully coloured. Engravings - from the 1941 edition These thirty-two beautiful engravings recreate key moments in Biblical History. size: 10x7 Black Leather Hard Back 10.3pt type