St Jerome

b. c.342; d. 420.

A biblical scholar and secretary to Pope Damascus from 382-385. He moved to and settled in Bethlehem in 386. He is most famous for his translations of the Bible into Latin, which were later gathered together in the Vulgate. Jerome advocated that the Church should accept the Hebrew canon of Scriptures and excluding the Apocrypha as canonical; unfortunately for the Catholic Church, his counsel was rejected.

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