Editing Jerome (section)

===Reception by later Christianity===
[[File:Saint Jerome ( Hieronymus ).JPG|thumb|upright|Statue of Saint Jerome, Church of St Catherine, [[Bethlehem]]]]

Jerome is the second-most voluminous writer – after [[Augustine of Hippo]] (354–430) – in ancient Latin Christianity. The [[Catholic Church]] recognizes him as the [[patron saint]] of translators, librarians, and [[encyclopedist]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kemp |first=Jane |title=St.&nbsp;Jerome: Patron saint of librarians |website=Luther College Library and Information Services (luther.edu) |place=Decorah, IA |publisher=[[Luther College (Iowa)|Luther College]] |url=http://www2.luther.edu/library/about/history/40th/jerome/ |url-status=live |access-date= 2 June 2014 |archive-url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20240417235456/http://www2.luther.edu/library/about/history/40th/jerome/ |archive-date= April 17, 2024}}</ref>

Jerome translated many biblical texts into Latin from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. His translations formed part of the ''[[Vulgate]]''; the ''Vulgate'' eventually superseded the preceding Latin translations of the Bible (the ''[[Vetus Latina]]''). The [[Council of Trent]] in 1546 declared the ''Vulgate'' authoritative "in public lectures, disputations, sermons, and expositions".<ref>{{cite web |last=Akin |first=Jimmy |title=Is the ''Vulgate'' the Catholic Church's official Bible? |type=blog |url=https://www.ncregister.com/blog/is-the-vulgate-the-catholic-church-s-official-bible |access-date=8 December 2021 |newspaper=[[National Catholic Register]] |date=5 September 2017 |language=en |quote= '[This] sacred and holy Synod – considering that no small utility may accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which out of all the Latin editions, now in circulation, of the sacred books, is to be held as authentic – ordains and declares, that the said old and vulgate edition, which, by the long use of so many years, has been approved of in the Church, be, in public lectures, disputations, sermons and expositions, held as authentic; and that no one is to dare, or presume to reject it under any pretext whatever' [''Decree Concerning the Edition and Use of the Sacred Books'', 1546].}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Vulgate |year=2005 |dictionary=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-280290-3 |pages=1722–1723|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Jerome showed more zeal and interest in the ascetic ideal than in abstract speculation. He lived as an ascetic for 4~5&nbsp;years in the Syrian desert, and later near Bethlehem for 34&nbsp;years. Nevertheless, his writings show outstanding scholarship<ref>{{cite book |last=Power |first=Edward J. |date=1991 |title=A Legacy of Learning: A history of western education |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-0610-6 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Upup1CZKAsEC&pg=PA102 |language=en |quote=his exceptional scholarship produced&nbsp;...}}</ref> and his correspondence has great historical importance.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Louth |first=Andrew |date=2022 |title=Jerome |dictionary=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-263815-1 |pages=872–873 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CNeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2305 |lang=en |quote=His correspondence is of great interest and historical importance.}}</ref>

The [[Church of England]] [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|honours]] Jerome with a [[Commemoration (Anglicanism)|commemoration]] on 30&nbsp;September.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Calendar |website=[[The Church of England]] |language=en |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar
|access-date=8 April 2021
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