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
19th century
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Anne Catherine Emmerich
1774–1824 Notable AuthorAugustinian nun of Dülmen, stigmatist, beatified in 2004. This library hosts the 1914 English translation of her biblical visions, The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, in four volumes, and Carl E. Schmöger’s two-volume Life in the English edition of 1885. Clemens Brentano recorded the visions.
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was beatified in 2004 for her life of virtue. That honor does not make Clemens Brentano’s record of her visions part of the faith of the Church, or a history the Church has vouched for. They are private revelations, and no Catholic is bound to believe them.
6 texts
- Visions
- The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume I English
- The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume II English
- The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume III English
- The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume IV English
- Biography
- The Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Volume I English
- The Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Volume II 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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Mary of Ágreda
1602–1665 Notable AuthorConceptionist abbess of Ágreda and counselor of Philip IV. This library hosts Mística Ciudad de Dios in Spanish and The Mystical City of God in the 1914 English translation of Fiscar Marison (Rev. George J. Blatter), each in four volumes: the Conception, the Incarnation, the Transfixion, and the Coronation.
Mary of Ágreda is Venerable. She has not been beatified or canonized. The Mystical City of God is a private revelation. Popes allowed it to be read, but the Church has not made it part of the faith, and no Catholic is bound to believe it.
8 texts
- Revelaciones
- Mística Ciudad de Dios, I. La Concepción Spanish
- Revelations
- The Mystical City of God, I. The Conception English
- Revelaciones
- Mística Ciudad de Dios, II. La Encarnación Spanish
- Revelations
- The Mystical City of God, II. The Incarnation English
- Revelaciones
- Mística Ciudad de Dios, III. La Transfixión Spanish
- Revelations
- The Mystical City of God, III. The Transfixion English
- Revelaciones
- Mística Ciudad de Dios, IV. La Coronación Spanish
- Revelations
- The Mystical City of God, IV. The Coronation English
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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