One of them I still have. My dad bought it for her as he liked all of the fancy color pictures in it. It is close to 1,000 pages long and weighs about 15 lbs.!
There were plenty of others too, some longer than others.
However, one in particular comes to mind. While she was dying, the local priest went to see her a couple of times a week (and may God bless him for doing that!). She wanted me to bring her "her bible". So, I went to her house and looked for "her bible" and found all of these other old bibles. I didn't know one from the next so picked up one that was left next to her chair.
It was not the right one it seems and she had a fit about that. I couldn't bring myself to tell her that it had likely gone out to the dumps with a lot of her other stuff. She said, "If you threw that bible of mine away, God will get you for that!". I was freaked out and told the priest about this incident and he said to me, "Well you are doing the very best you can given the circumstances." That gave me a lot of relief, believe me. She died about 3 months after the diagnosis of cancer that had spread throughout her entire body very quickly. It was a very sad time in my life and I am very glad that said priest (who has since time retired) was there for her and me, I will say that much.
As for the rest of them, I ended up donating them all to the Church/charity if I remember right. 
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