30 September 420 A.D. Jerome—Education, Canon, Translation, Monastery, Letters
30 September 420 A.D. Jerome—Education, Canon, Translation, Monastery, Letters Jerome’s full name was Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymous. He was born to Christian parents in northeastern Italy. He went to Rome to study. He was baptized at age 19. He was devoted to the Lord. He was attracted to monasticism. He went to Gaul and Syria. He lived in a desert area near the ancient town of Chalcis, Syria. He began to master Hebrew and Greek. Next, he shifted to Constantinople and studied under Gregory of Nazianzus, a Cappadocian father who influenced him on the Trinity. In 382, the bishop of Rome, Mr. Damascus, commissioned Jerome to produce a standardized Latin text. Jerome claimed there were as many texts as there were manuscripts. In 386, he moved to Bethlehem and was an overseer of a monastery there. He wrote voluminously including letters, a bibliography of authors, and commentaries on nearly every Biblical book. ...