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Books by Church Fathers, Doctors, Saints, Notable Authors

Church Fathers, Doctors, Saints, and notable authors — from the Ante-Nicene age through later classics of devotion and teaching, including St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Ávila, and Thomas à Kempis — plus the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Ante-Nicene Post-Nicene Doctors Saints Magisterium Authors Collections Varia Quotes Encyclopedia

The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia — a public-domain reference on Catholic doctrine, history, persons, and institutions.

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  • Xaverian Brothers

    Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier. An institute of laymen, founded under episcopal approbation by Theodore James Ryken, in Belgium, in the year 1839

  • Ximenes, Didacus

    A Spanish Dominican of the sixteenth century; noted as a theologian, philosopher, and astronomer

  • Ximénez de Cisneros, Francisco

    Franciscan, cardinal, and Primate of Spain, born at Torrelaguna in New Castile. 1436-1517)

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