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History of the Papacy Podcast

Sidetrack Episode 21: Jerome, An Illustrious Man

History of the Papacy Podcast

History of the Papacy

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4.4532 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Description: Jerome, born Eusebius Hieronymus, was one of the most important and influential Christian writers. Jerome knew just about every important personality during his lifetime and participated in just about every important event. This episode...

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0:30.9

Thank you. Sidetrack Episode 21, Jerome, an illustrious man.

1:05.0

Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast. I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and the Christian church.

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This is an installment of our sidetrack episodes, where we take a closer look at it, topics and papal and church history that are interesting, but somewhat tangential to the stories we tell in the main episodes.

1:18.7

We've been on kind of a Jerome Roll here with the last excellent sidetrack episode by Gary Stevens

1:24.6

on the Vulgate Bible. As we know from that episode, the Vulgate was a translation of the Bible,

1:31.7

particularly the Old Testament by Jerome.

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The Vulgate is just one of many, many works Jerome produced

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during his extremely long and productive career.

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Jerome wrote Apologies, Panegyrics, and polemical works.

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In past episodes, we've brought in bits and pieces of Jerome's background and biography.

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He was born in the town of Strideon, near modern-day Lubiana, Slovenia.

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So in the neighborhood of Italy, only a little more than 400 miles or approximately 700

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kilometers from downtown ancient Rome.

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That's not a huge distance, and Roman days that would have been less than a week of travel.

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