ST/JD/139

Jerome

Gender

Male

Floruit (period)

None

Floruit date range

341 - 420

Description

Responsible for the 'Vulgate' translation of the Bible into Latin---the version which lies at the heart of the Roman liturgy. A native of Dalmatia, he spent his career in Syria, Constantinople and Rome, finally ending his life in Behtlehem, and was buried in the church of the Nativity there. His body was later translated to the church of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome. He is also known for a large body of works on Church history, the monastic life, doctrine, celibacy, biblical commentary, and letters. He presented textual scholarship at the highest level as itself a form of spiritual training, appropriate for a monk. See J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome: his life, writings, and controversies (1975); Megan Hale Williams, The Monk and the Book. Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship (2006).