 His retreat talks were eventually published in a series of 14 "Golden Books".They were so named because when he held the second annual retreat in June 1947, at the request of some of the people who had attended the first retreat his talks were printed in a fifty-six page booklet with a gold cover, and distributed as a souvenir, through the generosity of the owner of the archdiocesan newspaper in Indianapolis.People began requesting copies of "the golden book of your retreat."