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Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Saint Jerome)
Stridon (Dalmatia), Croatia
Archival Overview
Master linguist and Doctor of the Church who spent decades in a Bethlehem cave translating the Hebrew Tanakh and Greek New Testament into Latin, producing the Vulgate—the canonical scripture of Western civilization for a millennium.
Biographical Record
Born in Roman Dalmatia and educated in classical rhetoric in Rome, Jerome underwent spiritual awakening and mastered Greek and Hebrew through years of solitary asceticism in the Syrian desert of Chalcis. Commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 CE, he revised the Latin Gospels.
Retiring to Bethlehem adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, he translated directly from the original Hebrew texts ("Hebraica veritas") rather than relying solely on the Greek Septuagint, leaving an unmatched legacy of epistolary literature and biblical commentaries.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialBethlehem, Palestine