Jerome
Jerome — Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus — was the greatest biblical scholar of the ancient Latin Church. A brilliant and combative man, he learned Hebrew as well as Greek, and from about 386 lived as a monk at Bethlehem, in a cell beside the cave of the Nativity. There, over many years, he translated the Scriptures into Latin from the original tongues — the version that became the Church’s Vulgate — and wrote commentaries, letters, and controversial works without number. He is counted one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church.
“O God, who hast vouchsafed to provide for thy Church blessed Jerome, thy Confessor and Doctor, to expound the Holy Scriptures: grant, we beseech thee; that for his sake, we may be enabled, by thine aid, to perform, what he taught both by word and in deed.”
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