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 ...

The purpose was similar—to replace the 1609 Douay Bible,† which shares most of the faults but not nearly all the noble language of the King James version. Since the Latin Bible of St.