The Original Douay-Rheims Bible
Fr. Gregory Martin
The complete 1582/1609 Douay-Rheims — the first printed English Catholic Bible — restored in modern spelling, with the translators' own arguments and notes. Not the later Challoner revision.
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The original Douay-Rheims, the Rheims New Testament (1582) and Douay Old Testament (1609–1610), the first complete English Catholic Bible, notthe later Challoner revision (1749–1752) that almost every “Douay-Rheims” in print and online today reproduces. The verbatim 1609 text sits beside a gently modern-spelling reading, with the translators’ marginal glosses, annotations, and the Latin Vulgate. The whole Bible — all 73 books, Old and New Testament — is now complete and free to read online.
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