The printing press was not in use until the end of St. Theresa’s life. Ergo, any copying of the bible was done by monks laboring years with pen and parchment. They didn’t bother with the “vernacular” for obvious reasons. All priests and most religious spoke and read Latin. The bible was made widely available in almost every language on earth as soon as the printing press made it reasonable to do so. Prior to the printing press,most parishes only had one bible, because it took so much work. This is why a gospel passage and an epistle passage are read at every Mass and always have been and always will be.
This is correct and also these facts have been posted on this forum too manny times to even count and yet there are always those who will falsely accuse the Church of not wanting anyone to own their own Bible
Yes, Bibles, being hand-scripted, took too much work prior to the printing press for anyone to privately own one. And even IF they did own one-—it would not have been handily brought to Church for reference during services—it would have had to be hauled in on a little cart.
The constant repetition of this falsehood is like that old saying-—”tell a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it”. It’s called by another name—propaganda.