Readings in
Catholic History

Most of the specifically Catholic material on my site relates to the history of the United States. The portal is American Catholic History: it collects biographies of James Cardinal Gibbons, Fr. Charles Nerinckx, and Fr. Emil Kapaun as well as a history of the Cistercian abbey of New Melleray and a number of journal articles on various subjects.

[ 4 books, 93 webpages
— 1322 pages of print, 81 illustrations ]

The Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis — the Book of the Bishops of Ravenna — was written in the ninth century by Agnellus, a priest of the diocese: it has been described in the Catholic Encyclopedia as "a unique and rich source of information concerning the buildings, inscriptions, manners, and religious customs of Ravenna in the ninth century". 🇻🇦 In Latin.

[ primary source: 7 webpages
— 117 pages of print, unillustrated ]

La Papauté, by the Sulpician historian and educator Fr. Fernand Mourret: a work of Catholic apologetics tra­cing the history of the papacy in support of its universality, primacy, and infallibility, a key factor of our modern civilization. 🇫🇷 In French.

[ 12 webpages
— 205 pages of print, unillustrated ]

Among my many pages on Umbrian churches, the church of S. Michele in Cannaiola is in fact mostly given over to a fair biographical sketch of the Blessed Pietro Bonilli, founder of several Catholic charitable institutions.

From time to time I'll also be adding a few journal articles and similar material. Here are the first:

articles from 🇮🇹🇺🇸 Moroni's Dizionario di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica (all in Italian but also translated into English): Kaminieck • Lituania [Lithuania] • Giorgio Radzwil [Jurgis Radvila] • Samogizia [Samogitia] • Jacopo Tebaldo • Wilna [Vilnius] • Zytomir [Zhytomyr]