September 30: ST. JEROME: Translator of the Holy Bible

St. Jerome spent decades in a Bethlehem cave translating the entire Bible so ordinary people could finally read it themselves.

Working from the original Hebrew rather than the easier Greek text, Jerome produced the Vulgate — the Latin Bible that shaped Catholic worship for over a thousand years. Sharp-tempered and imperfect, he still gave his whole life to a conviction he never let go of: that knowing Christ means knowing Scripture.

"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ."

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