Jerome

EUSEBIUS HIERONYMUS SOPHRONIUS, (jer-ōm',) (St.,) a distinguished father of the Latin Church, B. in Pannonia, about 340 A. D. After a lengthened journey in Gaul, Thrace, Cappadocia, and Pontus, he settled in Syria to study Hebrew. In 382 he became secretary to Pope Damasus, at Rome. D. at Bethlehem, 420 A. D. His translation of the Old and New Testaments into Latin (the Vulgate), and the Lives and Writings of the Elder Christian Futhers, are among his principal contributions to Biblical literature. [s. 502]