The Encyclical Letter of Our Lord Pope Gregory XVI: To All Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops, Issued May 8, 1844.

This document details the nineteenth-century controversy over the distribution of Bibles to the laity. This translation by a Low Church baronet includes an introduction addressed to ‘all members of the Church of Christ’, the original document in Latin, and translations in Italian and English.