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.
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Spiritual and theological writers beyond the Fathers, Doctors, and Saints — classics of Christian devotion and instruction.
20th century
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G. K. Chesterton
1874–1936 Notable AuthorEnglish journalist, essayist, and convert to Catholicism; defender of orthodoxy with wit and paradox (Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, Father Brown).
6 texts
- Major works
- Orthodoxy English
- Heretics English
- The Everlasting Man English
- Essays
- What's Wrong with the World English
- Fiction
- The Man Who Was Thursday English
- The Innocence of Father Brown English
18th century
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Alban Butler
1711–1773 Notable AuthorEnglish priest and hagiographer; author of The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. This library hosts the Benziger Brothers daily abridgment (1894), the unabridged twelve-volume Lives from public-domain editions, The Moveable Feasts and Fasts, and his Travels through France and Italy.
26 texts
- Hagiography
- Lives of the Saints English
- Lives of Certain Saints English
- Lives of the Saints — January English
- Lives of the Saints — February English
- Lives of the Saints — March English
- Lives of the Saints — April English
- Lives of the Saints — May English
- Lives of the Saints — June English
- Lives of the Saints — July English
- Lives of the Saints — August English
- Lives of the Saints — September English
- Lives of the Saints — October English
- Lives of the Saints — November English
- Lives of the Saints — December English
- Complete Lives
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — January–March English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — April English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — May English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — June English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — July English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — August English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — September English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — October English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — November English
- Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints — December English
- Liturgy
- The Moveable Feasts, Fasts, and Other Annual Observances of the Catholic Church English
- Letters
- Travels through France and Italy English
17th century
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Blaise Pascal
1623–1662 Notable AuthorMathematician, physicist, and Catholic apologist of Port-Royal; Pensées, the Provincial Letters, and shorter writings on faith, persuasion, and the hidden God.
5 texts
- Major works
- Pensées English
- Provincial Letters English
- Letters
- Letters English
- Minor works
- Minor Works English
- Major works
- Thoughts English
15th century
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Thomas à Kempis
c. 1380–1471 Notable AuthorCanon regular of Windesheim (Devotio Moderna); author of The Imitation of Christ — a classic of following Jesus in humility and interior life. Not a Church Father; never formally beatified or canonized.
2 texts
- Major works
- The Following of Christ English
- The Imitation of Christ English