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Saint Jerome in a cardinal’s hat, holding a book and pointing heavenward, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán about 1640

Saint Jerome

Translated the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate, in a cave at Bethlehem

Patron of
librarians, scholars, translators
Western calendar
30 September
Orthodox calendar
15 June

Jerome was born at Stridon on the borders of Dalmatia and Pannonia, studied in Rome, and learned Hebrew while living as a hermit in the desert of Chalcis, south-east of Antioch. Pope Damasus made him his secretary, but when he denounced the morals of the Christians of Rome a party of enemies spread slanders about him, and in 386 he settled in a cave at Bethlehem near the cave where Christ was born. There he gave the Church its Latin translation of the Old and New Testaments, the Vulgate, which passed into use throughout the Western Church, and there he died on 30 September 420.

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