| − | '''Saint Jerome''' or '''Jerome of Stridon''' (Latin: ''Hieronymus''), lived from (342 – 420 A.D.) and is the most famous [[Christian]] biblical scholar of antiquity. | + | '''Saint Jerome''' or '''Jerome of Stridon''' (Latin: ''Hieronymus''), lived from (342 – 420 A.D.) and is the most famous [[Christian]] biblical scholar of antiquity. He translated the [[Latin Vulgate]]. |
| − | He "stands at the close of the old Græco-Roman civilisation: the last Roman poet of any repute, Claudian, and the last Roman historian, Ammianus Marcellinus, died before him. [[St. Augustine|Augustin]] survived him, but the other great Fathers, both in the East and in the West, had passed away before him."<ref>https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.iv.V.html</ref> | + | He "stands at the close of the old Græco-Roman civilisation: the last Roman poet of any repute, Claudian, and the last Roman [[History|historian]], Ammianus Marcellinus, died before him. [[St. Augustine|Augustin]] survived him, but the other great Fathers, both in the East and in the West, had passed away before him."<ref>https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.iv.V.html</ref> |
| | He is a [[Doctor of the Church]], one of only 33 to be so honored in [[Roman Catholicism|Catholicism]]. | | He is a [[Doctor of the Church]], one of only 33 to be so honored in [[Roman Catholicism|Catholicism]]. |