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Jerome (HIERONYMUS one of the fathers)

or HIERONYMUS, one of the fathers of the Church; born ab. 340, at Stridon, on the frontiers of Dacia.

He was ordained a presbyter at Antioch, 378, and soon after went to Constantinople, where he lived with Gregory Nazianzen. In 382 he visited Rome and was made secretary to Pope Damasus; but three years afterward he returned into the East, accompanied by several female devotees who wished to lead an ascetic life in the Holy Land. His writings are very numerous, the most important being his Commentaries on various parts of the Bible. The Church owes to him the Latin translation of the Bible, well known under the name of the Vulgate. His style is singularly pure and classical. He died in 420.