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Philip Berrigan
Philip Berrigan (1923-2002)

Catholic priest, anti-nuclear weapons activist, peace activist, civil rights advocate, pacifist

  • Xavier University, Loyola University New Orleans

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Fighting the lamb's war
Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary
Widen the prison gates
Of beasts and beastly images
Disciples & dissidents
No more strangers
In the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. United States of America v. Philip Berrigan...[et al.], defendants
The time's discipline
A punishment for peace
Catholic Church and the Negro
A punishment for peace
No more strangers
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916-1992)

diplomat, Eastern Orthodox priest, poet, journalist

  • Heidelberg University, University of Bucharest

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L'epreuve de la liberte
Mémoires
L' épreuve de la liberté
Muḥammad
Meurtre de Kyralessa
La Vie de Mahomet
Christ au Liban
Le peuple des immortels
La jeunesse du docteur Luther
Les inconnus de Heidelberg
La vingt-cinquième heure
La Corée
La seconde chance roman
De la vingt-cinquième heure a l'heure éternelle
Les immortels d'Agapia
Les mendiants de miracles
Les sacrifiés du Danube
Vie de Mahomet [par] C.-Virgil Gheorghiu
The immortals of the mountain
Memoires
De la 25ème heure à l'heure éternelle
L' homme qui voyagea seul
La Tunique de peau et la Cravache
La vie du patriarche Athenagoras
La Coree
L'espionne
Les inconnus de Heidelberg
Les mendiants de miracles
Perahim
Reportaje de război
La Tunique de peau
La vie de Mahomet
Les amazones du Danube
Omul care călătorea singur
Le Grand exterminateur
The Twenty-fifth hour
Pourquipoi m'a-t'on appele Virgil?
La seconde chance
La Condottiera
[al-Sāʻah al-khāmisah wa-al-ʻishrūn
Câ̂ntece finale de faun
La seconde chance
Dieu ne reçoit que le dimanche
L' oeil américain
La cravache
Cîntece finale de faun
The twenty-fifth hour
Ora 25
Le meurtre de Kyralessa
La maison de Petrodava
Dieu à Paris
The twenty-fifth hour
Les immortels D'Agapia
L'oeil américain
La vingt-cinquième heure
Sonete
Pourquoi m'a-t-on appelé Virgil?
Sonete
Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Allaire
Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Allaire (1866-1943)

historian, Catholic priest

  • Collège Antoine-Girouard, Laval University

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Album du clergé séculier du diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe
Dictionnaire biographique du clergé canadien-français
Vie populaire de saint Jean-Baptiste, patron des Canadiens-français
Dictionnaire biographique du clerge canadien-francais
Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
Pius II
Pius II (1405-1464)

Catholic priest, diplomat, poet, historian, geographer

  • University of Siena

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Commentarii rerum memorabilium
Commentaries
Reject Aeneas, accept Pius
De Europa
De viris illustribus
I commentarii
Æneas Sylvius Piccolomineus, qui postea Pius II. P. M., De viris illustribus
I commentari di Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
I commentari
De viris illustribus
De duobus amantibus
Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte. Reihe B: Editionen N.F., Bd. 20: Historia Bohemica, Band 2: Die fr uhneuhochdeutsche Ubersetzung (1463) des Breslauer Stadtschreibers Peter Eschenloer
De gestis Concilii Basiliensis commentariorum libri II
Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte. Reihe B: Editionen N.F., Bd. 20: Historia Bohemica, Band 3: Die erste alttschechische Ubersetzung (1487) des katholischen Priesters Jan Huska
Fides Quarens Intellectum
Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte. Reihe B: Editionen N.F., Bd. 20: Historia Bohemica, Band 1: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe des lateinischen Textes
Epistola ad Mahumetem
De gestis Concilii Basiliensis commentariorum
Chrysis
The goodli history of the Ladye Lucres of Scene and of her lover Eurialus
Epistolae familiares
The tale of the two lovers
Enee Silvii Piccolominei postea Pii PP. II De Europa
[Euryalus and Lucreatia.]
Lettere scritte durante il cardinalato
Oeuvres érotiques
The tale of two lovers, Eurialus and Lucretia
Aeneae Silvii De liberorum educatione
Descripcion de Asia (Biblioteca de Colon)
The two lovers
Enee Silvii Piccolominei, postea PII PP. II Carmina
Epistola ad Mahomatem II =
Deutschland, der Brieftraktat an Martin Mayer
Enee Silvii Piccolominei Epistolarium seculare
Briefe
Cosmographia ... in Asiae et Europae ... descriptione
Historia rerum ubique gestarum del papa Pio II
Historia Bohemica =
Der briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius Piccolomini
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis
Commentariorum Aeneae Syluij Piccolominei Senensis de Concilio Basileae celebrato libri duo
Germania
Storia dei due amanti
Papa II. Pius'un Fatih Sultan Mehmet'e mektubu
Criside
Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Papst Pius II
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis, qui post adeptum pontificatum Pius eius nominis secundus appellatus est, opera quae extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas editiones summa diligentia castigata & in unum corpus redacta, quorum elenchum versa pagella indicabit
Epístola al Gran Turco
La traduction en moyen français de la lettre anticuriale De curialium miseriis epistola d'Aenas Silvius Piccolomini
The Tale of The Two Lovers
Commentariorvm Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei senensis
Secret memoirs of a Renaissance pope
Eurialus und Lukrezia
Æneas Sylvius Piccolomineus
Here begynneth the egloges of Alexa[n]der Barclay prest
Pii Pont. Max. Decadvm Blondi epitome
Germania [von] Aeneas Silvius und Responsa et replicae ad Eneam Silvium [von] Jakob Wimpfeling
Aeneae Sylvii, poste`a Pii II. Pontificis Romani Commentariorum, historicorum libri III De Concilio Basileensi
Here begynneth the egloges of Alexander Barclay, priest
Selected letters of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Dialogo su un sogno =
La discrittione de l'Asia, et Europa
Hofkritik im Licht humanistischer Lebens- und Bildungsideale
Estoria muy verdadera de dos amantes
Aeneae Sylvii... De Bohemorum, et ex his imperatorum aliquot origine ac gestis... historia
Pii. II. Pon. M. Asiae, Evropae q[ue] elegantiss. descriptio
Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
Chrysis
De duobus amantibus Eurialo et Lucretia
In Europam
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei ... Opera quae extant omnia
The history of the amours of Count Schlick
Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III
Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
De remedio amoris
Epistola Enee̜ Siluii Picolominei iuueni non esse negandum amorem dicit
Pij p[a]pe secu[n]di Bulla retractationu[m] o[mn]i[u]m dudu[m] p[er] eum in minoribus adhuc age[n]tem pro. Concilio Basilien[si et] con[tra] Eugenium summu[m] po[n]tificem scriptorum
Enea Silvio Piccolomini-Pius II (1405-1464): een humanistisch paus op de bres voor Europa
Vienna nel'400
Aeneae Sylvii Senensis, S. Rom. Ecclesiae Cardinalis ... De Bohemorum et ex his imperatorum aliquot origine ac gestis ... historia
Historia Gothorum
Aeneae Silvii De curialium miseriis epistola
De curialium miseria
Epistole Enee Siluij
De duobus amantibus Eurialo et Lucretia
Enee Silvii Piisecu[n]dimarimi pontificis philosophi oratoris. poete Laurati. theologii accutissimi
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis
Lettere scritte durante il cardinalato
Storia di due amanti
Epistola Enee Siluii Picolominei iuueni non esse negandum amorem dicit
Pii secvndi pontificis max. Commentarii rerum memorabilium, quae temporibus suis contigerunt
Tractatus pulcherrimus Enee Siluij, siue Pij pape secundi, de Curialium miseria
Pii II Pontificis Maximi d[e] captione vrbis Co[n]stantinopolitane tractatul[us]
Enee Siluii Piccolominei qui et Pius secundus fuit, dialogus incipit foeliciter
Epistola ad Mahumetum
Aenee Siluii Picolominei qui & Pius secu[n]dus fuit Epistole in cardinalatu edite
Incipit sompnium Enee Siluii poete laureati de fortuna
Prohemio di ser Alexandro Braccio al praestantissimo & excelle[n]tissimo Giouene Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici sopra la traductione duna historia di due amanti co[m]posta dalla foelice memoria di Papa Pio Secondo
Commentariorum Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei senensis
Sigismunda
Travels in Italy
Criside [di] Enea Silvio Piccolomini
De remedio amoris
Proemio di ser Alexandro Braccio al prestantissimo & excellentissimo giouãe Lorẽzo di Pierfrancesco de medici sõp la traductõe duna historia di due amãti cõposta dalla felice memoria di papa pio 2o
Lettera a Maometto II (Epistola ad Mahumetem)
Aeneas Sylvius Eurialus und Lukrezia
Enee Siluii poete laureati duobus amantibus ...
Euriolus und Lucretia
The Commentaries of Pius II
Enee Siluij Senen[sis] cardinalis S[an]cte Sabine Historia Bohemica, notabilis [et] jocu[n]da
Aeneae silvii piccolomini senesis
Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra com munione
The hystorie of the moste noble knight Plasidas, and other rare pieces
Chrysis, comédie latine inédite
Prohemio di ser Alexandro Braccio al prestantissimo & excelle[n]tissimo Giouane Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici sopra la traductione duna historia di due amanti
Epistola siue oratio Pii in conuentu Mantuano
Enee Siluij Picolominei Senens[isce] poete laureati ep[isto]la laudans poeticam eamq[ue] scie[n]cie iuris preferens
La discrittione de l'Asia, et Europa di papa Pio II e l'historia de le cose memorabili fatte in quelle, con l'aggionta de l'Africa, secondo diuersi scrittori ...
Aeneae Sylvii postea Pii II. Pontificis Romani commentariorum historicorum libri III
[Opusculum]
Pii II Pontificis Maximi Historia rerum ubique gestarum
Pii Pont. Max. Decadum Blondi epitome
Aeneae Silvii Piccolomini Senensis qui postea fuit Pius II, pont. max. opera inedita
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis
Commentariorum Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei senensis
De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. Add: De remedio amoris; Epistola retractatoria ad quendam Karolum
Chrysis
Item in der ersten translatze dises büches von Euriolo vnd Lucretia [...]
Descripción de Asia
Hie hebt sich an ein liepliche histori die bapst Pius der ander des namens gemacht hatt von zweÿen liebhabenden menschen [...]
In Europam
[Epistolae familiares]
Historia de dos amantes
Eneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pentalogus
Pii Secundi, Pont. Max. ... Epistola prima[-quinquagesimasecunda]
Hystoria muy verdadera de dos amantes Ervrials franco y Lucrecia sensa que acaescis en la cibdad de Sena enel año de Mil [et] .cccc. [et] .xxxiij. ...
Enee Siluii Piccolominei Senen[sis] cardinal[is] sancte Sabine ad Alfonsum Aragonum regem clarissimum in historiam Bohemicam ...
Historia de duobus amantibus
Aenee Silvii Piccolominei qui & Pius Secundus suit epistole in Cardinalatu edite lege foeliciter
Epístola a Mehmet II
Die Geschichte Kaiser Friedrichs III
Enea Silvio Piccolomini Briefe
De gestis Concilii Basiliensis commentariorum, libri 11
Tractatus pulcherrimus Enee Siluij, siue Pij pape ij de curialiu[m] miseria
Storia di due amanti e Rimedio d'amore
Aeneae Silvii episcopi Senensis, postea Pii Papae II Historia rerum Friderici Tertii imperatoris
The tale of two lovers
Tractatus ad regem Bohemiae Ladislaum de puerorum educatione
Euryalus und Lucretia (De duobus amantibus)(L - D), 1444
Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
Libellus dialogorum
Germania
Pii. II. Pon. M. Asiae, Evropae q[ue] elegantiss. descriptio
Geschijcht Eurioli ind Lucrecie
Aeneae Sylvii ... De Bohemorum et es his imperatorum aliquot origine ac gestis
Historia rerum
In sacratiss. Passionem dominicam
Aeneas Siluius in Europam
Aenee siluij Pii secu[n]di maximi po[n]tificis
The tale of the two lovers
Enee Siluii Pii secu[n]di maximi pontificis, philosophi, oratoris poete Laureati [et theologi acutissimi
Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei De duobus amantibus historia
De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia
Tractatul[us] p[er] Enea[m] Siluiu[m] editus ad Regem bohemie Ladislaum
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Aeneas Silvius de Piccolomini: österreichische Geschichte
Enee Siluii Piccolominei qui et Pius Secu[n]dus fuit epistole in cardinalatu edite
Aeneae Syluij Piccolominei Sene[n]sis, olim Pij II, Pont. Max., De ortu & authoritate Sacri Romani Imperij lib. I ...
[Epistolae in pontificatu editae]
Epistola ad Mahumetum
Epistola de remedio amoris
Historia Austrialis
Lettera a Maometto II
Abbreuiatio Pii Pont. Max. supra Decades Blondi ab inclinatione Imperii usque ad tempora Iohannis Vicesimi Tercii Pont. Max
De educatione puerorum ad regem Bohemiae Ladislaum
Historia rerum ubique gestarum del Papa Pio II
Pii II, P.M. olim Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei senensis Orationes politicae, et ecclesiasticae
Aeneae Silvii De cvrialivm miseriis epistola, edited, with introduction and notes
Aencae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis
Pij ii Pontificis maximi de captione vrbis Constantinopolitane tractatulus
Commentariorum Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis, de Concilio Basileae celebrato libri duo ...
De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia
Epistole & varii tractat[us] Pij secu[n]di po[n]tificis maximi
Der briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius Piccolomini
Aeneas Siluius in Europam
The historie of Eurialus and Lucretia
De situ, sita, moribus et conditione Teutoniae
Epistolae familiares
Dyalogus eloque[n]tissimi atq[ue] reuere[n]di patris D[omi]ni Enee Siluij poete laureati atq[ue] Ep[iscop]i Senensis postea Pij pape secu[n]di [con]tra Bohemos atq[ue] Thaboritas habitus de Sacra [Com]munione Corp[or]is [Christ]i
Asia
Sompniu[m] Enee Siluij poete laureati de fortuna
Dialogus
Deutschland, der Brieftraktat an Martin Mayer
[Epistolae in pontificatu editae]
Heinrich Federer
Heinrich Federer (1866-1928)

Catholic priest

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Niklaus von Flüe
Berge und Menschen
Pilatus
Sisto e Sesto
Nos guiteder Prometeus
Literarische Studien
Aus jungen Tagen
Sisto e Sesto - versiun rumauntscha
Am Fenster
Ich lösche das licht
Umbrische Reisegeschichtlein
Papst und Kaiser im Dorf
Durch Zeit und Welt
Geschichten aus der Urschweiz
Zwischen grünen Hügeln und Träumen
Südliche Weihnacht
Spitzbube über spitzbube
Das Mätteliseppi
Regina Lob
Der heilige Habenichts
Federer-Briefe [von] Sigisbert Frick
Lachweiler Geschichten
Kinder in der Dichtung Heinrich Federers
Unter südlichen Sonnen und Menschen
Der heilige Franziskus von Assisi
Das letzte Stündlein des Papstes
Gerechtigkeit muss anders kommen!
Jungfer Therese
Ich losche das licht
Wander - und Wundergeschichten aus dem Süden
In Emmet's day
Federer-Briefe
Am Fenster
Jungfer Therese
Lieber leben als schreiben!
Mala, die Buchbinderin
Pilatus
Ich lösche das licht
Lachweiler Geschichten
Zwischen grünen Hügeln und Träumen
Papst und Kaiser im Dorf
Ich losche das licht
Vater und Sohn im Examen
Spitzbube über Spitzbube
Wanderer in Italien
Das letzte stündlein des papstes
Mala
Das letzte stundlein des papstes
In Franzens Poetenstube
Umbrische Reisegeschichtlein
Unter südlichen Sonnen und Menschen
Wander- und Wunder- Geschichten aus dem Süden
Sisto e Sesto
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

missionary, explorer, Latin Catholic priest

  • University of Paris, Collège Sainte-Barbe

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The missionary life and labours of Francis Xavier taken from his own correspondence
Lettres de Saint François-Xavier de la Compagnie de Jésus
Cartas de Japón escritas por Francisco de Xabier =
Thampuran vanakkam
Epistolae
Cartas Y Escritos De San Francisco Javier (BAC, 101)
Dalle terre dove sorge il sole
Lettres de S. Francois Xavier
The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier
Correspondance, 1535-1552
Cartas y escritos de San Francisco Javier
Original letter of St. Francis Xavier
Lettres de Saint François-Xavier
The letters and instructions of Francis Xavier
Sancti Francisci Xaverii epistolarum libri quatuor
S. Francisci Xaverii e Soc. J. Indiarum apostoli Epistolarum omnium libri quatuor
Cartas y escritos de San Francisco Javier
S. Francisci Xaverii, e Societate Jesu Indiarum Apostoli, Epistolarum libri quinque
Epistolae S. Francisci Xaverii aliaque eius scripta
Lettres de saint François Xavier, apôtre des Indes et du Japon
Epistolarum, libri quatuor
Francisci Xaverii ..
Monumenta Xaveriana
Leaves from the letters of Xavier
Lettres du B. Pere Sainct Francois Xavier de la Compagnie du Iesus, apostre du Iapon..
Corr espondance, 1535-1662
Lettres de S. Francois Xavier
Lettres spirituelles
Novarvm epistolarvm libri septem
Cartas y escritos de San Francisco Javier
Sei Furanshisuko Zabieru zenshokan
Le lettere e altri documenti
Teachings and counsels of St. Francis Xavier
Epistolae S. Francisci Xaverii aliaque eius scripta
Sancti Francisci Xaverii...epistolarum libri quinque. Quorum priores quatuor ab Horatio Tursellino societatis Iesu ex Hispanico idiomate, ultimus autem à Petro Possino eiusdem societatis, partim ex Hispanico, partim ex Lusitano, Latinitate, & luce donati Romae, et nunc denuo superiorum permissu recusi
Lettres de S. Francois Xavier: apôtre des Indes et du Japon
The Novena of grace revealed by Saint Francis Xavier to Father Mastrilli of the Society of Jesus
Gesammelte Briefe des heiligen Franciscus Xaverius
EL PADRE MAESTRE FRANCISCO XAVIER EN EL JAPON
Die Briefe des Francisco de Xavier, 1542-1552
Tūya Cavēriyar kaṭitaṅkaḷ
S. Francisci Xaverii e Soc. J. Indiarum apostoli, Epistolarum omnium libri quatuor ex Petro Maffejo, Horatio Tursellino, Petro Possino, & Francisco Cutillas... Opera R. M. Olim Soc. J. sacerdotis in Castellana provincia
Monumenta Xaveriana ex autographis vel ex antiquioribus exemplis collecta
Sancti Francisci Xaverij Epistolarum libri quatuor
William Dunbar
William Dunbar (1459-1519)

poet, Catholic priest

  • University of St Andrews

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The life and poems of William Dunbar
The poems of William Dunbar
William Dunbar
Selected poems
The poems of William Dunbar
Poems
Dunbar
India in transition / William Dunbar [pseud.]
London, Thou Art the Floure of Cities All (Pickpockets)
Selected poems of William Dunbar
The thistle and the rose ; Vertue and vyce
The works of William Dunbar
William Dunbar's Tretis of the tua mariit wemen and the wedo
The poems of William Dunbar
The poems of William Dunbar, now first collected
[The tua mariit wemen and the wedo. And other poems]
William Dunbar poems... with an introduction, notes, and glossary
Select poems of Wil. Dunbar
The life and poems of William Dunbar by James Paterson
The ballade of ane right noble victorius & myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Aubigny erle of Beaumont ... be Maistir Willyam Dunbar ...
Here begynns ane litil tretie intitulit the goldyn targe compilit be Maister Wilyam dunbar
The thistle and the rose
William Dunbar 1460?-1520?
The life and poems of William Dunbar
Thomas of Cantimpré
Thomas of Cantimpré (1201-1270)

hagiographer, philosopher, friar, Catholic priest

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The life of Margaret of Ypres
Vita Christinae Mirabilis
The life of Christina of Saint Trond
Vita Lutgardis
Thomas of Cantimpré
Vie de Sainte Ludgarde
Liber de natura rerum
Die gynäkologie des Thomas von Brabant; ein beitrag zur kenntnis der mittelalterlichen gynäkologie und ihrer quellen
Les exemples du "Livre des abeilles"
Thomae Cantipratani ... Bonum universale de apibus
De natura rerum (lib. IV-XII)
Die Gynäkologie des Thomas von Brabant
Eine altfranzösische moralisierende Bearbeitung des Liber de monstruosis hominibus Orientis
De disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento
Pal. lat. 1066
Thomae Cantipratani ...
Miracvlorvm et exemplorvm memorabilium sui temporis libri dvo ...
Thomae de Cantipratani, s. theol. doctoris, ordinis praedicatorum, et episcopi suffraganei Cameracensis, bonum universale de apibus