Excerpt from History of the Catholic Church, Vol. 1: For Use in Seminaries and Colleges HE Manual of Church History, the first volume Of which is herewith presented to the English-speaking students of theology, and to the English-speaking community in general, is mainly a translation of the Church History of Dr. H. Brueck, Professor of Theology in the Ecclesiastical Seminary at Mentz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.