4. The Rheims-Douay Bible. The most widely used English Catholic translation (from the Latin Vulgate) of the Bible is the Rheims-Douay or Douay Version. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth many ...

Infinite are the numbers of fools,” as one of the exhibition’s wall quotes from the Douay-Rheims Bible (1582) has it. The ...

Ironically the Douay-Rheims New Testament influenced the King James Bible. [2,3] After the 14th century when English finally became the popular language of England, vernacular Bibles were used as ...