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Designated to be used nationally, this catechism for Catholic parochial schools was published in 1942. It begins the text with that famous question “Who made us?”

This manual of prayers and meditations was printed in 1888 for the Arch-Confraternity of the Servants of the Holy Ghost- an association founded in London in 1877 and approved by Pope Leo XIII the following year.

The most famous of Catechisms, the Baltimore edition, was used in most parochial schools in the United States in the 1930′s-1960′s, and had a great influence on the faith of millions of children.

Bishops and prelates, such as abbots, still use a distinctive form of celebrating Mass. Formerly, however, there were many variations in the types of Episcopal Masses, which often included complex preparatory rites. This lavishly decorated missal for…

The decretal letter signed by Pope Paul VI which announced the canonization of Bishop John Neumann as a saint in 1977.

The Forty Hours devotion originated with the veneration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Sepulchre from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday. These beautiful pages are from the Catholic Family Book of Novenas, printed in 1956.

The title page from an Epistolary–the book containing those Scripture readings (other than the Gospel) which were chanted by the Subdeacon at a Solemn Mass. This edition was printed in Belgium in 1888.

Published in 1910, this German-English Reader was used in Catholic schools to teach the German Script to students. The front piece is of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, patron saint of teenagers, who received his First Holy Communion from Saint Charles…

The original Key of Heaven prayerbook has been attributed to St. Alphonsus Liguori. There have been numerous versions since and it is still published in many languages. This Italian edition dates from 1944.

La Strenna (The Gift) is a catechism used for the natively speaking Italian population in Philadelphia. Printed in 1884, during the largest influx of European immigration into the United States, this book is also a part of Ryan Library’s Catechism…