St. Jerome: Letter CVII to Laeta

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St. Jerome: Letter CVII to Laeta
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-011

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St. Jerome was a church father, biblical translator, and prolific writer. His Latin commentaries, correspondences, and theological tracts have been widely published, and he is regarded as one of the most learned and knowledgeable of early Christian authors. Born in Stridon, Dalmatia, in the middle of the fourth century CE, Jerome was educated primarily in Rome, where he was baptized when he was around twenty years old. An ascetic by nature, he spent two decades traveling and living as a hermit, primarily in Chalcis and Antioch. He studied biblical texts extensively and translated works by notable theologians, including Origen and Eusebius.

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