George Haydock (1774-1849) was a priest from a noble English Catholic family who would later become a Bible scholar. In 1811 he produced an extended commentary to the Douay-Rheims Bible. His general plan was to give the original understanding of the text that had been passed down by the church fathers and preserved in the Catholic church. The commentary became the most popular English Catholic Bible commentary of its time in the English speaking world. Haydock is known also have served in poor Catholic missions in rural England following Catholic Emancipation. This ebook is linked to the Bible.
