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He wrote about 123 surviving letters, commentaries on biblical books, and additional scholarly works including the ''De Viris Illustrubus'' (''On Illustrious Men'').
[[Image:Stjerome.JPG|right|thumb|Saint Jerome]]
[[Image:Stjerome.JPG|right|thumb|Saint Jerome]]
'''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 immensely influential [[Latin Vulgate]], and his ordering of the [[Gospels]], which was not the Western ordering of Matthew-John-Mark-Luke but instead conformed to the Eastern church and some early codices, made Matthew-Mark-Luke-John the universal standard today.
'''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 immensely influential [[Latin Vulgate]] from 391 to 405 A.D. His ordering of the [[Gospels]], which was not the Western ordering of Matthew-John-Mark-Luke but instead conformed to the Eastern church and some early codices, made Matthew-Mark-Luke-John the universal standard today.
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 "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]]. He wrote about 123 surviving letters, commentaries on biblical books, and additional scholarly works including the ''De Viris Illustrubus'' (''On Illustrious Men'').
His writing of a single Latin translation of the [[Bible]], directly from the [[Hebrew]] [[Old Testament]] and the [[Greek]] [[New Testament]], was enormously beneficial to the development of the early [[Christian]] church and to other writers, including [[St. Augustine]] who gradually made use of it.
His writing of a single Latin translation of the [[Bible]], directly from the [[Hebrew]] [[Old Testament]] and the [[Greek]] [[New Testament]], was enormously beneficial to the development of the early [[Christian]] church and to other writers, including [[St. Augustine]] who gradually made use of it.