Saint Retablos - St. Jerome

Description
Patron of Librarians & Translators

As a young man in Rome pursuing classical studies, he engaged in loose and secular behaviors. During a terrible illness, he had a vision that opened him to God and Christianity. He went to live in the desert to do penance for his wild and loose ways as a youth. He was an avid scholar, translator, and writer. He is best known for his translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate. Toward the end of his life, he went to live with followers in the very cave that Jesus was said to have been born. In the Golden Legend, it is written that he pulled a thorn out of the paw of a lion, who then stayed with him to protect him as he wrote and worked on his translations.

"Show me, O Lord, Your mercy, and delight my heart with it...
Seek after me and bring me home again to your fold."

Printed from Lynn Garlick's Originals.