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All Biblical citations in this book are from the Douay-Rheims Version, translated from the Latin Vulgate … The Old Testament, first published by the English College at Douay, AD 1609, The New Testament, first published by the English College at Rheims, AD 1582 (Charlotte, NC: Saint Benedict Press, 2009).