St. Jerome (September 30) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

A meditation for the Feast of St. Jerome, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.St. Jerome (c. 347–420), priest, monk, scholar, and Doctor of the Church, was one of the greatest biblical scholars of the early Church. Born in Stridon in Dalmatia, he devoted himself to study and the ascetic life, spending years as a hermit in the Syrian desert before being ordained a priest and eventually settling in Bethlehem. At the request of Pope St. Damasus I, he undertook a careful revision and translation of the Latin Scriptures, producing the version t...