30 September. St. Jerome. 1662 Book of Common Prayer
30 September. St. Jerome. 1662 Book of Common Prayer Two brief bio-notes: (1) From the 1662 BCP, (2) Wiki-notes, and (3) notes from Catholics online. First. http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/notes/saints.html#Jerome St. Jerome (Hieronymus; A.D. 342-420), the great critic and scholar of the West, as Origen of the East, standing almost alone among the Latin Fathers in knowledge, not only of Greek, but of Hebrew and Chaldee, and in the instincts of sound and scholarly criticism. He was born at Stridon in Pannonia, in early life a teacher of grammar and rhetoric; after his baptism he travelled to Gaul, Rome, and the East, and spent some time as a recluse in the desert of Chalcis; thence, after visiting Constantinople, he settled at Rome, as the trusted counsellor of Pope Damasus; afterwards he returned to the East, and spent the last thirty years of his life in seclusion and study at Bethlehem. His character was violent, and often undisciplined and fanatic, as i...