The following ebooks are Christian spiritual classics available as free downloads from the Catholic Planet web site. Most of these files are in Adobe's PDF format. You will need the free software, Adobe Acrobat Reader, to read these PDF books. It is my understanding that all of the eBooks on this page are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired. Thus, they can be freely copied and distributed by anyone.
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• Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich:  The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (762 KB -- PDF format).   This ebook now includes: The Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich
  It is also available in MSReader format (.lit) here (371 KB, zipped).
  
  
• Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich:  The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (967 KB -- PDF format).
  
  
• Saint Therese of Liseux: 
  
  • The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux (483 KB -- PDF format)
  • Letters of Saint Therese to Her Sister Celine (654 KB -- PDF format)
  • Prayers of Saint Therese (424 KB -- PDF format)
  • Counsels and Reminiscences (412 KB -- PDF format)
  
  
• Saint Patrick of Ireland:  The Confession of Saint Patrick (99 KB -- PDF format)
• Saint Catherine of Siena:  The Dialogue (366 KB -- PDF format)
• Thomas à Kempis:  The Imitation of Christ (281 KB -- PDF format)
• St. Ignatius of Loyola:  The Spiritual Exercises (180 KB -- PDF format)
• Saint Theresa of Avila:  The Way of Perfection (356 KB -- PDF format)

• The Didache (web page) - an ancient Church document from the late first century (or early second century) A.D., also called The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. [printer-friendly version]

• Dr. E. Jerry Vardaman, Lecture Notes - a rare copy of lecture notes on Biblical chronology from this Biblical scholar and archaeologist, in PDF format. Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, New Testament Chronology Summary, (right-click any link to download file).

• Theologia Moralis [365 Megabyte zip file containing 10 PDF files] Each of the ten volumes of this work by Saint Alphonsus Liguori is in Latin (scans only, no searchable or editable text).