The Catechism in Pictures
A classic illustrated catechism in sixty-eight plates, presenting Christian doctrine through image and a short explanatory text. Composed under the pontificate of St. Pius X and published in Paris by the Maison de la Bonne Presse, it expounds the Apostles' Creed, the Sacraments, the Commandments of God and of the Church, Prayer, the Last Things, the Capital Sins, the Virtues, and the Works of Mercy — each plate accompanied by an « Explanation » that comments on its iconographic details.
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Source: Original French edition (Paris, Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1908). Scanned reproduction with embedded OCR text layer, hosted by missiondesainteanne.wordpress.com and lafrancechretienne.wordpress.com. Public domain (Imprimatur Parisiis 14 octobris 1912). · English translation by E. E. Fernandez (Paris, Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1912; reprinted 1938). Sixty-eight full-page illustrations alternating with and facing text. Public domain (Imprimatur Southwarci 27 junii 1912). · Brazilian Portuguese translation rendered from the French canonical (1908) via the project's translate-book skill, in modern post-1971 orthography. The 1910 Lisbon edition (Catecismo Illustrado) was consulted as a reference but not used as the source due to pre-1911 European orthography that would require extensive modernization.