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Baronius Press is a traditional
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book publisher. It was founded in
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, in 2002 by former St Austin Press editor Ashley Paver and other young Catholics who had previously worked in publishing and printing. The press takes its name from the cardinal Cesare Baronius, a Neapolitan ecclesiastical historian who lived from 1538 to 1607. Its logo is a
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, which together with a
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forms the traditional image of a Catholic priest.


History and publications

The original objective of Baronius Press was to raise the quality of traditional Catholic books in order to make them more appealing to a wider audience. Baronius Press aimed to achieve this goal by retypesetting classic Catholic books (rather than republishing facsimiles) and binding them using high quality coverings such as leather. The advantages of retypesetting are clearer text and the ability to use modern layouts. The first publication of the Baronius Press was a new edition of the
Douay–Rheims Bible The Douay–Rheims Bible (, ), also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by member ...
. This was significant because no digitally typeset edition had been previously released. A pocket edition and a Psalms and New Testament edition followed, and, in 2007, a giant size format was added to the range. In 2008, their range of Bibles was expanded by a parallel Douay–Rheims /
Clementine Vulgate The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate or Clementine Vulgate () is an edition of the Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the second edition of the Vulgate to be formally authorized by the Catholic Church, the first be ...
, which includes the appendix to the Old Testament which contains the
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, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras. In 2004, Baronius Press published a new 1962 missal in cooperation with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, bearing an
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from Bishop Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz, for use at the traditional Roman mass. This was the first missal intended for use at the traditional mass with an
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to be published in more than 35 years. A new edition coinciding with
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's 2007
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''
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'' was named the Motu Proprio edition of the 1962 Missal. It was noted in several Catholic newspapers and journals that it is currently the only 1962 Missal being published with a valid imprimatur. Later in 2004, Baronius released a series of leather bound Catholic classics with the aim of expanding its range. By the end of 2006, the company had over 40 titles in print with the release of a new paperback series called Christian Classics. Baronius published a new edition of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary that contained all of the relevant
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s in October 2007. It was the first book to contain the complete music for the office. Websites complained that it contained several minor errors, and a revised edition correcting these was published at the end of 2008. In April 2012, its much anticipated Latin-English
Roman Breviary The Roman Breviary (Ecclesiastical Latin, Latin: ''Breviarium Romanum'') is a breviary of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. A liturgical book, it contains public or canonical Catholic prayer, prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notat ...
was published, having been granted an imprimatur by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz. Both the Breviary and the Little Office published by Baronius conform to the ''editio typica'' of the Breviary of 1961. In October 2012, a complete edition of the Bible translated by Ronald Knox was published, with endorsements from Cardinal
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, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, and Anglican Archbishop
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. In 2017 Baronius published an updated edition of Ludwig Ott's ''Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma''. This edition was edited by Robert Fastiggi, who also translated the latest edition of Denzinger's '' Enchiridion Symbolorum'' into English, incorporating a better translation of the German edition (including changes made by Ott himself after the Second Vatican Council), correcting some errors that had appeared in earlier English versions, and included references to Denzinger and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It received an Imprimatur from Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool, United Kingdom and a foreword by Bishop
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of Astana, Kazakhstan.


Legal matters


''Baronius Press, Ltd. v. Saint Benedict Press, LLC''

On 29 September 2016, Baronius filed a civil
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against TAN Books, a North Carolina–based Catholic publisher, and its parent company, Saint Benedict Press. The lawsuit alleged that TAN had violated Baronius's ownership of the copyright for the English translation of Ludwig Ott's ''Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma'' (''Grundriß der katholischen Dogmatik'' in the original German) by reprinting the book in the United States following Baronius's 2009 purchase of the rights to the English translation from the original copyright holders. The English translation of ''Fundamentals'' had been in the public domain in the United States since its initial publication in 1954, as U.S. copyright law in effect at the time did not provide automatic copyright protection to works initially published in foreign countries (the English translation of ''Fundamentals'' was originally published in Ireland). TAN began reprinting the English translation in 1974 under the assumption that ''Fundamentals'' was, in fact, a public domain work in the U.S. TAN ceased publication of ''Fundamentals'' in 1996 following the possibility that the book had acquired copyrighted status in the United States as a restored work on 1 January 1996 under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. TAN elected to reprint again ''Fundamentals'' in 2013 in hardcover, prompting Baronius to file suit against Saint Benedict Press for copyright violation. The lawsuit was settled on 25 March 2019. As a result of the settlement, TAN/SBP was forced to cease publication not only of ''Fundamentals'', but also other works it had published to which Baronius had subsequently acquired the exclusive English-language rights, including Francois Trochu's ''Saint Bernadette Soubirous'' and ''The Sermons of the Curé d'Ars'' and numerous works by
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.


Hardback book list

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* Msgr Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Bible * 1962
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Missal (motu proprio edition) * 1961 Latin-English Roman
Breviary A breviary () is a liturgical book used in Christianity for praying the canonical hours, usually recited at seven fixed prayer times. Historically, different breviaries were used in the various parts of Christendom, such as Aberdeen Breviar ...
* 1961 Little Office of the Blessed Virgin *
Rule of Saint Benedict The ''Rule of Saint Benedict'' () is a book of precepts written in Latin by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot. The spirit of Saint Benedict's Rule is summed up in the motto of th ...
by St Benedict * Dark Night of the Soul by St
John of the Cross St. John of the Cross (; ; né Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar of ''Converso'' ancestry. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, ...
* The Way of Perfection by St
Teresa of Ávila Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28March 15154or 15October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer. Active during the Counter-Re ...
*
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by St
Thérèse of Lisieux Thérèse of Lisieux (born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelites, Discalced Carmelite who is widely v ...
* True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary by St Louis de Montfort * Dolorous Passion by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich * Meditations and Devotions by St
John Henry Newman John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was previously an Anglican priest and after his conversion became a cardinal. He was an ...
* Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis * The Holy Mass by Dom
Prosper Guéranger Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger (; 4 April 1805 – 30 January 1875) was a French priest and Benedictine monk, who served for nearly 40 years as the abbot of the monastery of Solesmes (which he founded among the ruins of a former priory at Sol ...
* Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine by Archbishop Michael Sheehan * The Catechism of the Council of Trent * Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott * The Baltimore Catechism (Numbers 1-4)


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