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14th century · English selection 1905 · Correspondence · selected letters
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
Prayer made active in counsel to family, religious, rulers, popes, and friends across a divided Church.
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Church history
Historical study attends to sources and development without reducing providence to a slogan. It distinguishes the event, its later reception, and the devotional memory formed around it.
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1840 · English translation 1883 · Devotional biography
Life of Saint Dominic
A nineteenth-century Dominican restoration reads the founder’s life as a summons to preaching, poverty, and apostolic freedom.
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1901 · Hagiographical collection
Short Lives of the Dominican Saints
A wide devotional map of friars, nuns, sisters, and lay saints within the Dominican family.
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1914 · Social history · 7 chapters
Mediaeval Socialism
A historical study of medieval property, guilds, schoolmen, lawyers, reformers, and almsgiving.
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1921 · Institutional history
The English Dominicans, 1221–1921
Seven centuries of Dominican life in England, written for the province’s founding anniversary.
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1552 · English translation 1689 · Historical testimony and moral protest
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
An urgent eyewitness indictment of conquest, enslavement, and violence against Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
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1497 · English edition 1901 · Apologetic theology · 4 books
The Triumph of the Cross
A four-book defense of God, Christian faith, Christ, and the Church from a controversial Dominican preacher.
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1916 edition · Poetry collection
Poems
Chesterton’s collected verse includes “Lepanto,” a thunderous imaginative retelling of the battle and its Catholic memory.
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