St. Athanasius Press Catholic Classics Library

A complete Catholic library, for less than the price of a few books

The St. Athanasius Press Catholic Classics Library gathers 194 classic Catholic works — by saints, popes, Doctors of the Church, and the great spiritual writers — into one organized digital collection. Bought one at a time, these titles would cost many hundreds of dollars. Here you receive the entire Library for a single payment of $97, about 50¢ per title.

A sample of what’s inside

Roughly a third of the Library is the great spiritual classics and lives of the saints; the rest is the largest single collection of papal encyclicals you will find in one place — some 120 of them, from Leo XIII through Pius XI. A representative selection:

Spiritual classics

• The Confessions of St. Augustine — complete, thirteen books
• Introduction to the Devout Life — St. Francis de Sales
• True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary — St. Louis de Montfort
• The Glories of Mary — St. Alphonsus Liguori
• The Story of a Soul — St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom — Bl. Henry Suso
• The Hidden Treasure: The Value and Excellence of Holy Mass — St. Leonard of Port Maurice
• Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament — St. Alphonsus Liguori
• The Treatise on Purgatory — St. Catherine of Genoa
• Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
• The Mind’s Road to God — St. Bonaventure
• Why God Became Man — St. Anselm
• Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent and Christmas
• Hell Opened to Christians — Fr. Pinamonti, S.J.

Lives of the saints & Church history

• The Life of St. John Vianney, Curé of Ars
• The Life of St. Francis Xavier
• The Life and Miracles of St. Benedict
• The Martyrs of Japan and Martyrs of the Early Church
• The Revelations of St. Bridget
• The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock
• A Commonitory Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies — St. Vincent of Lérins
• The True Story of the Vatican Council

Papal encyclicals

• Rerum Novarum — On Capital and Labor — Leo XIII
• Aeterni Patris — On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy — Leo XIII
• Immortale Dei — On the Christian Constitution of States — Leo XIII
• Providentissimus Deus — On the Study of Holy Scripture — Leo XIII
• Pascendi Dominici Gregis — On the Doctrines of the Modernists — St. Pius X
• Casti Connubii — On Christian Marriage — Pius XI
• Quadragesimo Anno — On Reconstruction of the Social Order — Pius XI
• Divini Redemptoris — On Atheistic Communism — Pius XI
• Mit brennender Sorge — On the Church and the German Reich — Pius XI
• …plus eleven encyclicals on the Rosary alone, and dozens more on education, marriage, the clergy, and the Church in every nation.

The complete, numbered list of all 194 titles is included in the START HERE master index.

What you receive

Two ZIP files containing all 194 PDF books, organized and numbered for easy browsing, plus the START HERE master index listing the complete collection. Digital download only — nothing is shipped. Download links are available immediately after purchase and from your account page.