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unusual facts about Douay–Rheims Bible


Ernest Cassel

The establishment was surprised to find out that he had converted when he chose to be sworn into the Privy Council with the Catholic Bible.


Alanus de Rupe

From 1459 to 1475 he taught almost uninterruptedly at Paris, Lille, Douay, Ghent, and Rostock in Germany, where, in 1473, he was made Master of Sacred Theology.

Anthony Batt

3. ‘A Rule of Good Life,’ translated from St. Bernard, Douay, 1633, 16mo.

Bible translations into Spanish

Traditionalist Catholics consider this to be the best Spanish translation because it is direct translation from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, like the English language Douay-Rheims Bible.

Carey Bible

The Carey Bible was an edition of the English-language Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible published by Mathew Carey (1760-1839) beginning in 1789.

Douay

Douai, a commune in northern France; the Douay spelling often refers to the English College, Douai

Félix Douay (1816–1879), French general and brother of Abel Douay

Edgerton, Wisconsin

In 1886, Catholic parents in Edgerton protested the reading of the King James Bible in the village schools because they considered the Douay version the correct translation.

Humphrey Berisford

Christopher Green's 'F' manuscript, now in the English College, Rome, says of Berisford that he was a gentleman of Derbyshire, the son of an esquire, whose father was a Protestant, and that he studied at Douay for about two years.

Humphrey Ely

In July 1577 he and other students of law formed a community in the town of Douay, and resided together in a rented house.

Laurence York

York was born in London in 1687, joined the Benedictine order and made his solemn profession as a monk at St. Gregory's College, Douay, on 28 December 1705.

Petrus van der Aa

Three years later he was given a professorship in the same town, when his predecessor, Johannes Tack, moved to Douay in France.

Tabrimmon

Tabrimmon, also as Tabrimon, also as Tabremon in Douay-Rheims, was an Aramaean king, but there is little known about him.


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