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Saint Jerome and the Labor of Translation

Remembering the scholar whose Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, shaped Western Christianity for centuries.

By Saul 1 min read
Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome Writing: the aged saint, draped in red, reaches his pen toward an open book beside a skull.

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The scholar

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Study as devotion

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Image: Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, c. 1605–1606. Public domain.

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