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"Martyrdom…consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life." - #SaintJerome #FirstMartyrsofRome

Saint Jerome

Doctor of the Church

347 - 420

Feast day: September 30

Patronage: archeologists; archivists; Bible scholars;librarians; libraries; schoolchildren; students;translators

Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), and his commentaries on the Gospel of the Hebrews. His list of writings is extensive.

Saint Jerome

Vitae Patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) by Saint Jerome, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Woodcuts

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Today is the feast of Saint Jerome; a priest, theologian and historian who retired to the desert to live a life of prayer and penance. It is said that St. Jerome once befriended a lion by removing a thorn from its paw, and he is often depicted with this companion.

Here he is pictured with the lion in his study in an engraving by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1514. http://bit.ly/2xg3dn6

"Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life." - #SaintJerome #FirstMartyrsofRome

"The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it…" - #SaintJerome

Today (September 19) is the Feast of Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr. #SaintoftheDay #OraProNobis

"When we pray, we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us." - #SaintJerome #SaintoftheDay