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. He eventually returned to Rome, but his prickly personality, combative and undiplomatic temperament, and tendency to engage in heated theological conflicts with his peers forced him to enter self-exile in the Holy Land. He traveled to Bethlehem late in his life, dying there in 420 CE. A formidable biblical scholar, Jerome is famed for his translation of the Bible into Latin and for translating the Old Testament from Hebrew. He is, after Augustine of Hippo, the second most published writer among the early church fathers and is now recognized by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of translators, librarians, and encyclopedists.