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Saint Jerome Saint Jerome in the Wilderness by Bernardino Pinturicchio Hermit and Doctor of the Church c. 27 March 347 Stridon ( possibly Strido Dalmatiae, on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia ) 30 September 420 ( aged c. 73 ) Bethlehem, Palaestina Prima Venerated in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Lutheranism Oriental Orthodoxy Major shrine Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, Italy Feast 30 September ( Western Christianity ) 15 June ( Eastern Christianity ) Attributes lion, cardinal attire, cross, skull, trumpet, owl, books and writing material Patronage archeologists ; archivists ; Bible scholars ; librarians ; libraries ; school children ; students ; translators Major works The Vulgate De viris illustribus Chronicon Part of a series on Catholic philosophy Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham Schools Augustinianism Molinism Occamism Salamanca Scholasticism Neo-scholasticism Scotism Thomism Ethics Natural law Personalism Social teaching Virtue ethics Ancient philosophers Ambrose Augustine of Hippo Jerome Paul the Apostle Medieval philosophers Peter Abelard Alexander of Hales Thomas Aquinas Benedict of Nursia Francis of Mayrone Giles of Rome Pope Gregory I Henry of Ghent Peter Lombard Albertus Magnus Duns Scotus William of Ockham Renaissance philosophers Erasmus Luis de Molina Thomas More Francisco de Vitoria Modern philosophers G.E.M. Anscombe Pope John Paul II Bernard Lonergan Alasdair MacIntyre Jacques Maritain Blaise Pascal Edith Stein Charles Taylor Catholicism portal Philosophy portal Jerome ( / dʒ əˈroʊm / ; Latin : Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus ; Greek : Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος ; c. 27 March 347 -- 30 September 420 ) was a priest, confessor, theologian, and historian. He was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin ( the translation that became known as the Vulgate ), and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive. The protégé of Pope Damasus I, who died in December of 384, Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as Rome. In many cases, he focused his attention to the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to Jesus should live her life. This focus stemmed from his close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families. He is recognised as a Saint and Doctor of the Church by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Anglican Communion. His feast day is 30 September. Contents 1 Life 2 Translations and commentaries 3 Historical and hagiographic writings 3.1 Saint Jerome 's description of vitamin A deficiency 4 Letters 5 Theological writings 6 Reception by later Christianity 7 In art 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links 11.1 Latin texts 11.1. 1 Facsimiles 11.2 English translations Life Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 347 A.D. He was of Illyrian ancestry and his native tongue was the Illyrian dialect. He was not baptized until about 360 -- 366 A.D., when he had gone to Rome with his friend Bonosus ( who may or may not have been the same Bonosus whom Jerome identifies as his friend who went to live as a hermit on an island in the Adriatic ) to pursue rhetorical and philosophical studies. He studied under the grammarian Aelius Donatus. There Jerome learned Latin and at least some Greek, though probably not the familiarity with Greek literature he would later claim to have acquired as a schoolboy. As a student in Rome, he engaged in the superficial escapades and homosexual wanton behaviour of students there, which he indulged in quite casually but for which he suffered terrible bouts of guilt afterwards... To appease his conscience, he would visit on Sundays the sepulchres of the martyrs and the Apostles in the catacombs. This experience would remind him of the terrors of hell : `` Often I would find myself entering those crypts, deep dug in the earth, with their walls on either side lined with the bodies of the dead, where everything was so dark that almost it seemed as though the Psalmist 's words were fulfilled, Let them go down quick into Hell. Here and there the light, not entering in through windows, but filtering down from above through shafts, relieved the horror of the darkness. But again, as soon as you found yourself cautiously moving forward, the black night closed around and there came to my mind the line of Vergil, `` Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent ' ''. St. Jerome in His Study ( 1480 ), by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Jerome used a quote from Virgil -- `` On all sides round horror spread wide ; the very silence breathed a terror on my soul '' -- to describe the horror of hell. Jerome initially used classical authors to describe Christian concepts such as hell that indicated both his classical education and his deep shame of their associated practices, such as pederasty which was found in Rome. Although initially skeptical of Christianity, he was eventually converted. After several years in Rome, he travelled with Bonosus to Gaul and settled in Trier where he seems to have first taken up theological studies, and where he copied, for his friend Tyrannius Rufinus, Hilary of Poitiers ' commentary on the Psalms and the treatise De synodis. Next came a stay of at least several months, or possibly years, with Rufinus at Aquileia, where he made many Christian friends. Some of these accompanied him when he set out about 373 on a journey through Thrace and Asia Minor into northern Syria. At Antioch, where he stayed the longest, two of his companions died and he himself was seriously ill more than once. During one of these illnesses ( about the winter of 373 -- 374 ), he had a vision that led him to lay aside his secular studies and devote himself to God. He seems to have abstained for a considerable time from the study of the classics and to have plunged deeply into that of the Bible, under the impulse of Apollinaris of Laodicea, then teaching in Antioch and not yet suspected of heresy. St. Jerome reading in the countryside, by Giovanni Bellini Seized with a desire for a life of ascetic penance, he went for a time to the desert of Chalcis, to the southeast of Antioch, known as the `` Syrian Thebaid '', from the number of hermits inhabiting it. During this period, he seems to have found time for studying and writing. He made his first attempt to learn Hebrew under the guidance of a converted Jew ; and he seems to have been in correspondence with Jewish Christians in Antioch. Around this time he had copied for him a Hebrew Gospel, of which fragments are preserved in his notes, and is known today as the Gospel of the Hebrews, and which the Nazarenes considered to be the true Gospel of Matthew. Jerome translated parts of this Hebrew Gospel into Greek. Returning to Antioch in 378 or 379, he was ordained by Bishop Paulinus, apparently unwillingly and on condition that he continue his ascetic life. Soon afterward, he went to Constantinople to pursue a study of Scripture under Gregory Nazianzen. He seems to have spent two years there, then left, and the next three ( 382 -- 385 ) he was in Rome again, as secretary to Pope Damasus I and the leading Roman Christians. Invited originally for the synod of 382, held to end the schism of Antioch as there were rival claimants to be the proper patriarch in Antioch. Jerome had accompanied one of the claimants, Paulinus back to Rome in order to get more support for him, and distinguished himself to the pope, and took a prominent place in his councils. He was given duties in Rome, and he undertook a revision of the Latin Bible, to be based on the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. He also updated the Psalter containing the Book of Psalms then at use in Rome based on the Septuagint. Though he did not realize it yet, translating much of what became the Latin Vulgate Bible would take many years and be his most important achievement ( see Writings -- Translations section below ). This painting by Antonio da Fabriano II, depicts Saint Jerome in study. The writing implements, scrolls, and manuscripts testify to Jerome 's scholarly pursuits. The Walters Art Museum. In Rome he was surrounded by a circle of well - born and well - educated women, including some from the noblest patrician families, such as the widows Lea, Marcella and Paula, with Paula 's daughters Blaesilla and Eustochium. The resulting inclination of these women towards the monastic life, away from the indulgent lasciviousness in Rome, and his unsparing criticism of the secular clergy of Rome, brought a growing hostility against him among the Roman clergy and their supporters. Soon after the death of his patron Damasus ( 10 December 384 ), Jerome was forced by them to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula. Still, his writings were highly regarded by women who were attempting to maintain a vow of becoming a consecrated virgin. His letters were widely read and distributed throughout the Christian empire and it is clear through his writing that he knew these virgin women were not his only audience. Additionally, his condemnation of Blaesilla 's hedonistic lifestyle in Rome had led her to adopt ascetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions ; much of the Roman populace were outraged at Jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to Paula that Blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising Roman opinion against him. In August 385, he left Rome for good and returned to Antioch, accompanied by his brother Paulinian and several friends, and followed a little later by Paula and Eustochium, who had resolved to end their days in the Holy Land. In the winter of 385, Jerome acted as their spiritual adviser. The pilgrims, joined by Bishop Paulinus of Antioch, visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the holy places of Galilee, and then went to Egypt, the home of the great heroes of the ascetic life. At the Catechetical School of Alexandria, Jerome listened to the catechist Didymus the Blind expounding the prophet Hosea and telling his reminiscences of Anthony the Great, who had died 30 years before ; he spent some time in Nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that `` city of the Lord '', but detecting even there `` concealed serpents '', i.e., the influence of Origen of Alexandria. Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Palestine, and spent the remainder of his life working in a cave near Bethlehem, the very cave Jesus was born, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher. Painting by Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, showing Jerome 's removal of a thorn from a lion 's paw. Amply provided by Paula with the means of livelihood and of increasing his collection of books, he led a life of incessant activity in literary production. To these last 34 years of his career belong the most important of his works ; his version of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries, his catalogue of Christian authors, and the dialogue against the Pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized. To this period also belong most of his polemics, which distinguished him among the orthodox Fathers, including the treatises against the Origenism later declared anathema, of Bishop John II of Jerusalem and his early friend Rufinus. Later, as a result of his writings against Pelagianism, a body of excited partisans broke into the monastic buildings, set them on fire, attacked the inmates and killed a deacon, forcing Jerome to seek safety in a neighboring fortress ( 416 ). It is recorded that Jerome died near Bethlehem on 30 September 420. The date of his death is given by the Chronicon of Prosper of Aquitaine. His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics -- the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial. Translations and commentaries St Jerome, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1607, at St John 's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta Jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary. A wealthy Roman aristocrat, Paula, funded his stay in a monastery in Bethlehem and he completed his translation there. He began in 382 by correcting the existing Latin language version of the New Testament, commonly referred to as the Vetus Latina. By 390 he turned to translating the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew, having previously translated portions from the Septuagint which came from Alexandria. He believed that the mainstream Rabbinical Judaism had rejected the Septuagint as invalid Jewish scriptural texts because of what were ascertained as mistranslations along with its Hellenistic heretical elements. He completed this work by 405. Prior to Jerome 's Vulgate, all Latin translations of the Old Testament were based on the Septuagint, not the Hebrew. Jerome 's decision to use a Hebrew text instead of the previous translated Septuagint went against the advice of most other Christians, including Augustine, who thought the Septuagint inspired. Modern scholarship, however, has sometimes cast doubts on the actual quality of Jerome 's Hebrew knowledge. Many modern scholars believe that the Greek Hexapla is the main source for Jerome 's `` iuxta Hebraeos '' translation of the Old Testament. However, detailed studies have shown that to a considerable degree Jerome was a competent Hebraist. Saint Jerome, unknown Southern Dutch artist, 1520, Hamburger Kunsthalle For the next 15 years, until he died, Jerome produced a number of commentaries on Scripture, often explaining his translation choices in using the original Hebrew rather than suspect translations. His patristic commentaries align closely with Jewish tradition, and he indulges in allegorical and mystical subtleties after the manner of Philo and the Alexandrian school. Unlike his contemporaries, he emphasizes the difference between the Hebrew Bible `` apocrypha '' and the Hebraica veritas of the protocanonical books. In his Vulgate 's prologues, he describes some portions of books in the Septuagint that were not found in the Hebrew as being non-canonical ( he called them apocrypha ) ; for Baruch, he mentions by name in his Prologue to Jeremiah and notes that it is neither read nor held among the Hebrews, but does not explicitly call it apocryphal or `` not in the canon ''. His Preface to The Books of Samuel and Kings includes the following statement, commonly called the Helmeted Preface : This preface to the Scriptures may serve as a `` helmeted '' introduction to all the books which we turn from Hebrew into Latin, so that we may be assured that what is not found in our list must be placed amongst the Apocryphal writings. Wisdom, therefore, which generally bears the name of Solomon, and the book of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, and Judith, and Tobias, and the Shepherd are not in the canon. The first book of Maccabees I have found to be Hebrew, the second is Greek, as can be proved from the very style. Although Jerome was once suspicious of the apocrypha, it is said that he later viewed them as Scripture. For example, in Jerome 's letter to Eustochium he quotes Sirach 13 : 2., elsewhere Jerome also refers to Baruch, the Story of Susannah and Wisdom as scripture. Jerome in the desert, tormented by his memories of the dancing girls, by Francisco de Zurbarán. Rome. Jerome 's commentaries fall into three groups : His translations or recastings of Greek predecessors, including fourteen homilies on the Book of Jeremiah and the same number on the Book of Ezekiel by Origen ( translated ca. 380 in Constantinople ) ; two homilies of Origen of Alexandria on the Song of Solomon ( in Rome, ca. 383 ) ; and thirty - nine on the Gospel of Luke ( ca. 389, in Bethlehem ). The nine homilies of Origen on the Book of Isaiah included among his works were not done by him. Here should be mentioned, as an important contribution to the topography of Palestine, his book De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraeorum, a translation with additions and some regrettable omissions of the Onomasticon of Eusebius. To the same period ( ca. 390 ) belongs the Liber interpretationis nominum Hebraicorum, based on a work supposed to go back to Philo and expanded by Origen. Original commentaries on the Old Testament. To the period before his settlement at Bethlehem and the following five years belong a series of short Old Testament studies : De seraphim, De voce Osanna, De tribus quaestionibus veteris legis ( usually included among the letters as 18, 20, and 36 ) ; Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim ; Commentarius in Ecclesiasten ; Tractatus septem in Psalmos 10 -- 16 ( lost ) ; Explanationes in Michaeam, Sophoniam, Nahum, Habacuc, Aggaeum. After 395 he composed a series of longer commentaries, though in rather a desultory fashion : first on Jonah and Obadiah ( 396 ), then on Isaiah ( ca. 395 - ca. 400 ), on Zechariah, Malachi, Hoseah, Joel, Amos ( from 406 ), on the Book of Daniel ( ca. 407 ), on Ezekiel ( between 410 and 415 ), and on Jeremiah ( after 415, left unfinished ). New Testament commentaries. These include only Philemon, Galatians, Ephesians, and Titus ( hastily composed 387 -- 388 ) ; Matthew ( dictated in a fortnight, 398 ) ; Mark, selected passages in Luke, Revelation, and the prologue to the Gospel of John. Historical and hagiographic writings This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2011 ) In the Middle Ages, Jerome was often ahistorically depicted as a cardinal. Jerome is also known as a historian. One of his earliest historical works was his Chronicle ( or Chronicon or Temporum liber ), composed ca. 380 in Constantinople ; this is a translation into Latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from 325 to 379. Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals. Of considerable importance as well is the De viris illustribus, which was written at Bethlehem in 392, the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from Suetonius. It contains short biographical and literary notes on 135 Christian authors, from Saint Peter down to Jerome himself. For the first seventy - eight authors Eusebius ( Historia ecclesiastica ) is the main source ; in the second section, beginning with Arnobius and Lactantius, he includes a good deal of independent information, especially as to western writers. Four works of a hagiographic nature are : the Vita Pauli monachi, written during his first sojourn at Antioch ( ca. 376 ), the legendary material of which is derived from Egyptian monastic tradition ; the Vitae Patrum ( Vita Pauli primi eremitae ), a biography of Saint Paul of Thebes ; the Vita Malchi monachi captivi ( ca. 391 ), probably based on an earlier work, although it purports to be derived from the oral communications of the aged ascetic Malchus of Syria originally made to him in the desert of Chalcis ; the Vita Hilarionis, of the same date, containing more trustworthy historical matter than the other two, and based partly on the biography of Epiphanius and partly on oral tradition. The so - called Martyrologium Hieronymianum is spurious ; it was apparently composed by a western monk toward the end of the 6th or beginning of the 7th century, with reference to an expression of Jerome 's in the opening chapter of the Vita Malchi, where he speaks of intending to write a history of the saints and martyrs from the apostolic times. Saint Jerome 's description of vitamin a deficiency The following passage, taken from Saint Jerome 's `` Life of St. Hilarion '', which was written about A.D. 392, appears to be the earliest account of the etiology, symptoms and cure of severe vitamin A deficiency. `` From his thirty - first to his thirty - fifth year he had for food six ounces of barley bread, and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. But finding that his eyes were growing dim, and that his whole body was shrivelled with an eruption and a sort of stony roughness ( impetigine et pumicea quad scabredine ) he added oil to his former food, and up to the sixty - third year of his life followed this temperate course, tasting neither fruit nor pulse, nor anything whatsoever besides. '' Letters Saint Jerome by Matthias Stom Jerome 's letters or epistles, both by the great variety of their subjects and by their qualities of style, form an important portion of his literary remains. Whether he is discussing problems of scholarship, or reasoning on cases of conscience, comforting the afflicted, or saying pleasant things to his friends, scourging the vices and corruptions of the time and against sexual immorality among the clergy, exhorting to the ascetic life and renunciation of the world, or breaking a lance with his theological opponents, he gives a vivid picture not only of his own mind, but of the age and its peculiar characteristics. Because there was no distinct line between personal documents and those meant for publication, we frequently find in his letters both confidential messages and treatises meant for others besides the one to whom he was writing. Due to the time he spent in Rome among wealthy families belonging to the Roman upper - class, Jerome was frequently commissioned by women who had taken a vow of virginity to write them in guidance of how to live their life. As a result, he spent a great deal of his life corresponding to these women about certain abstentions and lifestyle practices. These included the clothing she should wear, the interactions she should undertake and how to go about conducting herself during such interactions, and what and how she ate and drank. The letters most frequently reprinted or referred to are of a hortatory nature, such as Ep. 14, Ad Heliodorum de laude vitae solitariae ; Ep. 22, Ad Eustochium de custodia virginitatis ; Ep. 52, Ad Nepotianum de vita clericorum et monachorum, a sort of epitome of pastoral theology from the ascetic standpoint ; Ep. 53, Ad Paulinum de studio scripturarum ; Ep. 57, to the same, De institutione monachi ; Ep. 70, Ad Magnum de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis ; and Ep. 107, Ad Laetam de institutione filiae. Letter to Dardanus ( Ep. 129 ) You may delineate the Promised Land of Moses from the Book of Numbers ( ch. 34 ) : as bounded on the south by the desert tract called Sina, between the Dead Sea and the city of Kadesh - barnea, ( which is located with the Arabah to the east ) and continues to the west, as far as the river of Egypt, that discharges into the open sea near the city of Rhinocolara ; as bounded on the west by the sea along the coasts of Palestine, Phoenicia, Coele ‐ Syria, and Cilicia ; as bounded on the north by the circle formed by the Taurus Mountains and Zephyrium and extending to Hamath, called Epiphany ‐ Syria ; as bounded on the east by the city of Antioch Hippos and Lake Kinneret, now called Tiberias, and then the Jordan River which discharges into the salt sea, now called the Dead Sea. Theological writings Francesco St Jerome - Jacopo Palma il Giovane Practically all of Jerome 's productions in the field of dogma have a more or less vehemently polemical character, and are directed against assailants of the orthodox doctrines. Even the translation of the treatise of Didymus the Blind on the Holy Spirit into Latin ( begun in Rome 384, completed at Bethlehem ) shows an apologetic tendency against the Arians and Pneumatomachoi. The same is true of his version of Origen 's De principiis ( ca. 399 ), intended to supersede the inaccurate translation by Rufinus. The more strictly polemical writings cover every period of his life. During the sojourns at Antioch and Constantinople he was mainly occupied with the Arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around Meletius of Antioch and Lucifer Calaritanus. Two letters to Pope Damasus ( 15 and 16 ) complain of the conduct of both parties at Antioch, the Meletians and Paulinians, who had tried to draw him into their controversy over the application of the terms ousia and hypostasis to the Trinity. At the same time or a little later ( 379 ) he composed his Liber Contra Luciferianos, in which he cleverly uses the dialogue form to combat the tenets of that faction, particularly their rejection of baptism by heretics. In Rome ( ca. 383 ) he wrote a passionate counterblast against the teaching of Helvidius, in defense of the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary and of the superiority of the single over the married state. An opponent of a somewhat similar nature was Jovinianus, with whom he came into conflict in 392 ( Adversus Jovinianum, Against Jovinianus ) and the defense of this work addressed to his friend Pammachius, numbered 48 in the letters ). Once more he defended the ordinary practices of piety and his own ascetic ethics in 406 against the Gallic presbyter Vigilantius, who opposed the cultus of martyrs and relics, the vow of poverty, and clerical celibacy. Meanwhile, the controversy with John II of Jerusalem and Rufinus concerning the orthodoxy of Origen occurred. To this period belong some of his most passionate and most comprehensive polemical works : the Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanum ( 398 or 399 ) ; the two closely connected Apologiae contra Rufinum ( 402 ) ; and the `` last word '' written a few months later, the Liber tertius seuten ultima responsio adversus scripta Rufini. The last of his polemical works is the skilfully composed Dialogus contra Pelagianos ( 415 ). Reception by later Christianity The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino by Lorenzo Lotto Jerome is the second most voluminous writer ( after Augustine of Hippo ) in ancient Latin Christianity. In the Roman Catholic Church, he is recognized as the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists. He acquired a knowledge of Hebrew by studying with a Jew who converted to Christianity, and took the unusual position ( for that time ) that the Hebrew, and not the Septuagint, was the inspired text of the Old Testament. The traditional view is that he used this knowledge to translate what became known as the Vulgate, and his translation was slowly but eventually accepted in the Catholic Church. The later resurgence of Hebrew studies within Christianity owes much to him. He showed more zeal and interest in the ascetic ideal than in abstract speculation. It was this strict asceticism that made Martin Luther judge him so severely. In fact, Protestant readers are not generally inclined to accept his writings as authoritative. The tendency to recognize a superior comes out in his correspondence with Augustine ( cf. Jerome 's letters numbered 56, 67, 102 -- 105, 110 -- 112, 115 -- 116 ; and 28, 39, 40, 67 -- 68, 71 -- 75, 81 -- 82 in Augustine 's ). Despite the criticisms already mentioned, Jerome has retained a rank among the western Fathers. This would be his due, if for nothing else, on account of the great influence exercised by his Latin version of the Bible upon the subsequent ecclesiastical and theological development. In Art Statue Of Saint Jerome ( Hieronymus ) -- Bethlehem, Palestine Authority, West Bank In art, Jerome is often represented as one of the four Latin doctors of the Church along with Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose, and Pope Gregory I. As a prominent member of the Roman clergy, he has often been portrayed anachronistically in the garb of a cardinal. Even when he is depicted as a half - clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture. During Jerome 's life, cardinals did not exist. However, by the time of the Renaissance and the Baroque it was common practice for a secretary to the pope to be a cardinal ( as Jerome had effectively been to Damasus ), and so this was reflected in artistic interpretations. He is also often depicted with a lion, in reference to the popular hagiographical belief that Jerome had tamed a lion in the wilderness by healing its paw. The source for the story may actually have been the second century Roman tale of Androcles, or confusion with the exploits of Saint Gerasimus ( Jerome in later Latin is `` Geronimus '' ). Hagiographies of Jerome talk of his having spent many years in the Syrian desert, and artists often depict him in a `` wilderness '', which for West European painters can take the form of a wood or forest. Saint Jerome in his study by Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Workshop, Walters Art Museum The saint is often depicted in connection with the vanitas motif, the reflection on the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. In the 16th century Saint Jerome in his study by Pieter Coecke van Aelst and workshop the saint is depicted with a skull. Behind him on the wall is pinned an admonition, Cogita Mori ( Think upon death ). Further reminders of the vanitas motif of the passage of time and the imminence of death are the image of the Last Judgment visible in the saint 's Bible, the candle and the hourglass. He is also sometimes depicted with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship. Writing materials and the trumpet of final judgment are also part of his iconography. He is commemorated on 30 September with a memorial. See also Bible translations Ferdinand Cavallera Church Fathers Genesius of Arles Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus Order of St. Jerome International Translation Day References Notes Jump up ^ `` St. Jerome ( Christian scholar ) ''. Britannica Encyclopedia. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017. Jump up ^ Scheck, Thomas P. Commentary on Matthew ( The Fathers of the Church, Volume 117 ). p. 5. `` '' Jump up ^ Maisie Ward, Saint Jerome, Sheed & Ward, London 1950, p. 7 `` It may be taken as certain that Jerome was an Italian, coming from that wedge of Italy which seems on the old maps to be driven between Dalmatia and Pannonia. '' Jump up ^ Tom Streeter, The Church and Western Culture : An Introduction to Church History, AuthorHouse 2006, p. 102 `` Jerome was born around 340 AD at Stridon, a town in northeast Italy at the head of the Adriatic Ocean. '' Jump up ^ Schaff, Philip, ed. ( 1893 ). A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. 2nd series. VI. Henry Wace. New York : The Christian Literature Company. Retrieved 2010 - 06 - 07. ^ Jump up to : Megan Hale Williams, The Monk and the Book : Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship, ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2006 ) Jump up ^ In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is known as Saint Jerome of Stridonium or Blessed Jerome. Though `` Blessed '' in this context does not have the sense of being less than a saint, as in the West. Jump up ^ Williams, Megan Hale ( 2006 ), The Monk and the Book : Jerome and the making of Christian Scholarship, Chicago Jump up ^ Pevarello, Daniele ( 2013 ). The Sentences of Sextus and the origins of Christian ascetiscism. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck. p. 1. ISBN 9783161525797. Jump up ^ Wilkes 1995, p. 266 : `` Alongside Latin the native Illyrian survived in the country areas, and St Jerome claimed to speak his ' sermo gentilis ' ( Commentary on Isaiah 7.19 ). '' Jump up ^ Walsh, Michael, ed. ( 1992 ), Butler 's Lives of the Saints, New York : HarperCollins, p. 307 Jump up ^ Kelly, JND ( 1975 ), Jerome : His Life, Writings, and Controversies, New York : Harper & Row, pp. 13 -- 14 Jump up ^ Payne, Robert ( 1951 ), The Fathers of the Western Church, New York : Viking Press, pp. 90 -- 92 Jump up ^ Psalm 55 : 15 Jump up ^ Jerome, Commentarius in Ezzechielem, c. 40, v. 5 Jump up ^ Patrologia Latina 25, 373 : Crebroque cryptas ingredi, quae in terrarum profunda defossae, ex utraque parte ingredientium per parietes habent corpora sepultorum, et ita obscura sunt omnia, ut propemodum illud propheticum compleatur : Descendant ad infernum viventes ( Ps. LIV, 16 ) : et raro desuper lumen admissum, horrorem temperet tenebrarum, ut non tam fenestram, quam foramen demissi luminis putes : rursumque pedetentim acceditur, et caeca nocte circumdatis illud Virgilianum proponitur ( Aeneid. lib. II ) : `` Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent. '' Jump up ^ P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid Theodore C. Williams, Ed. Perseus Project ( retrieved 23 Aug 2013 ) Jump up ^ Payne, Robert ( 1951 ), The Fathers of the Western Church, New York : Viking, p. 91 Jump up ^ Rebenich, Stefan ( 2002 ), Jerome, p. 211, Further, he began to study Hebrew : ' I betook myself to a brother who before his conversion had been a Hebrew and '... Jump up ^ Pritz, Ray ( 1988 ), Nazarene Jewish Christianity : from the end of the New Testament, p. 50, In his accounts of his desert sojourn, Jerome never mentions leaving Chalcis, and there is no pressing reason to think... Jump up ^ `` Saint Jerome in His Study ''. The Walters Art Museum. Jump up ^ Joyce Salisbury, Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world, Blaesilla Jump up ^ Bennett, Rod ( 2015 ). The Apostasy That Was n't : The Extraordinary Story of the Unbreakable Early Church. Catholic Answers Press. ISBN 1941663494. Jump up ^ `` (... ) die griechische Bibelübersetzung, die einem innerjüdischen Bedürfnis entsprang (... ) ( von den ) Rabbinen zuerst gerühmt (... ) Später jedoch, als manche ungenaue Übertragung des hebräischen Textes in der Septuaginta und Übersetzungsfehler die Grundlage für hellenistische Irrlehren abgaben, lehte man die Septuaginta ab. '' Verband der Deutschen Juden ( Hrsg. ), neu hrsg. von Walter Homolka, Walter Jacob, Tovia Ben Chorin : Die Lehren des Judentums nach den Quellen ; München, Knesebeck, 1999, Bd. 3, S. 43ff Jump up ^ Pierre Nautin, article Hieronymus, in : Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Vol. 15, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin -- New York 1986, p. 304 - 315, here p. 309 - 310. Jump up ^ Michael Graves, Jerome 's Hebrew Philology : A Study Based on his Commentary on Jeremiah, Brill, 2007 : 196 - 198. Page 197 : `` In his discussion he gives clear evidence of having consulted the Hebrew himself, providing details about the Hebrew that could not have been learned from the Greek translations. '' Jump up ^ `` The Bible ''. Jump up ^ Kevin P. Edgecomb, Jerome 's Prologue to Jeremiah Jump up ^ `` Jerome 's Preface to Samuel and Kings ''. Jump up ^ Barber, Michael ( 2006 - 03 - 06 ). `` Loose Canons : The Development of the Old Testament ( Part 2 ) ''. Retrieved 2007 - 08 - 01. Jump up ^ Jerome, To Paulinus, Epistle 58 ( A.D. 395 ), in NPNF2, VI : 119. : `` Do not, my dearest brother, estimate my worth by the number of my years. Gray hairs are not wisdom ; it is wisdom which is as good as gray hairs At least that is what Solomon says : `` wisdom is the gray hair unto men. ' ( Wisdom 4 : 9 ) '' Moses too in choosing the seventy elders is told to take those whom he knows to be elders indeed, and to select them not for their years but for their discretion ( Num. 11 : 16 ) ? And, as a boy, Daniel judges old men and in the flower of youth condemns the incontinence of age ( Daniel 13 : 55 -- 59 aka Story of Susannah 55 -- 59 ) '' Jump up ^ Jerome, To Oceanus, Epistle 77 : 4 ( A.D. 399 ), in NPNF2, VI : 159. : `` I would cite the words of the psalmist : ' the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, ' ( Ps 51 : 17 ) and those of Ezekiel ' I prefer the repentance of a sinner rather than his death, ' ( Ez 18 : 23 ) and those of Baruch, ' Arise, arise, O Jerusalem, ' ( Baruch 5 : 5 ) and many other proclamations made by the trumpets of the Prophets. '' Jump up ^ Jerome, Letter 51, 6, 7, NPNF2, VI : 87 - 8 : `` For in the book of Wisdom, which is inscribed with his name, Solomon says : `` God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. '' ( Wisdom 2 : 23 )... Instead of the three proofs from Holy Scripture which you said would satisfy you if I could produce them, behold I have given you seven '' Jump up ^ Taylor, F. Sherwood ( 23 December 1944 ). `` St. Jerome and Vitamin A ''. Nature. 154 : 802 -- 802. doi : 10.1038 / 154802a0. Jump up ^ `` regulae sancti pachomii 84 rule 104. Jump up ^ W.H. Fremantle, `` Prolegomena to Jerome '', V. Jump up ^ Bechard, Dean Philip ( 1 January 2000 ). Paul Outside the Walls : A Study of Luke 's Socio - geographical Universalism in Acts 14 : 8 - 20. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. pp. 203 -- 205. ISBN 978 - 88 - 7653 - 143 - 9. In the Second Temple period, when Jewish authors were seeking to establish with greater precision the geographical definition of the Land, it became customary to construe `` Mount Hor '' of Num 34 : 7 as a reference to the Amanus range of the Taurus Mountains, which marked the northern limit of the Syrian plain ( Bechard 2000, p. 205, note 98. ) Jump up ^ Sainte Bible expliquée et commentée, contenant le texte de la Vulgate. Bibl. Ecclésiastique. 1837. p. 41. Quod si objeceris terram repromissionis dici, quae in Numerorum volumine continetur ( Cap. 34 ), a meridie maris Salinarum per Sina et Cades - Barne, usque ad torrentem Aegypti, qui juxta Rhinocoruram mari magno influit ; et ab occidente ipsum mare, quod Palaestinae, Phoenici, Syriae Coeles, Ciliciaeque pertenditur ; ab aquilone Taurum montem et Zephyrium usque Emath, quae appellatur Epiphania Syriae ; ad orientem vero per Antiochiam et lacum Cenereth, quae nunc Tiberias appellatur, et Jordanem, qui mari influit Salinarum, quod nunc Mortuum dicitur ; ( Image of p. 41 at Google Books ) Jump up ^ Hieronymus ( 1910 ). `` Epistola CXXIX Ad Dardanum de Terra promissionis ( al. 129 ; scripta circa annum 414ce ) ''. Epistularum Pars III -- Epistulae 121 - 154, p. 171 ( The fifty - sixth volume of Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum also known as the Vienna Corpus : Letters Part 3, Containing letters 121 - 154 of St. Jerome. ) Image of p. 171 at Archive.org Jump up ^ `` St. Jerome : Patron Saint of Librarians Luther College Library and Information Services ''. Lis.luther.edu. Retrieved 2014 - 06 - 02. Jump up ^ Stefan Rebenich, Jerome ( New York : Routlage, 2002 ), pp. 52 -- 59 Jump up ^ `` Jerome, St. '' Pages 872 - 873 in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Third Edition Revised. Edited by E.A. Livingstone ; F.L. Cross. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. Jump up ^ Hope Werness, Continuum encyclopaedia of animal symbolism in art, 2006 Jump up ^ `` Eugene Rice has suggested that in all probability the story of Gerasimus 's lion became attached to the figure of Jerome some time during the seventh century, after the military invasions of the Arabs had forced many Greek monks who were living in the deserts of the Middle East to seek refuge in Rome. Rice conjectures ( Saint Jerome in the Renaissance, pp. 44 -- 45 ) that because of the similarity between the names Gerasimus and Geronimus -- the late Latin form of Jerome 's name -- ' a Latin - speaking cleric... made St Geronimus the hero of a story he had heard about St Gerasimus ; and that the author of Plerosque nimirum, attracted by a story at once so picturesque, so apparently appropriate, and so resonant in suggestion and meaning, and under the impression that its source was pilgrims who had been told it in Bethlehem, included it in his life of a favourite saint otherwise bereft of miracles. ' '' Salter, David. Holy and Noble Beasts : Encounters With Animals in Medieval Literature. D.S. Brewer. p. 12. ISBN 9780859916240. Jump up ^ `` a figment '' found in the thirteenth - century Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine Williams, Megan Hale. The Monk and the Book : Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. Chicago : U of Chicago P. p. 1. ISBN 978 - 0 - 226 - 89900 - 8. Jump up ^ `` Saint Jerome in Catholic Saint info ''. Catholic-saints.info. Retrieved 2014 - 06 - 02. Jump up ^ `` Saint Jerome in His Study ''. The Walters Art Museum. ^ Jump up to : The Collection : Saint Jerome, gallery of the religious art collection of New Mexico State University, with explanations. Accessed August 10, 2007. Bibliography J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome : His Life, Writings, and Controversies ( Peabody, MA 1998 ) S. Rebenich, Jerome ( London and New York, 2002 ) `` Biblia Sacra Vulgata '', Stuttgart, 1994. ISBN 3 - 438 - 05303 - 9 This article uses material from Schaff - Herzog Encyclopedia of Religion. Further reading Saint Jerome, Three biographies : Malchus, St. Hilarion and Paulus the First Hermit Authored by Saint Jerome, London, 2012. limovia.net. ISBN 978 - 1 - 78336 - 016 - 1 External links Wikiquote has quotations related to : Jerome Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint Jerome. 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