St. Jerome

Catholic Saints

Augustine Institute

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

An early Church Father from the 4th century, St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin with the desire to make Scripture more accessible. St. Jerome is the patron of biblical scholars, translators, and archivists and famously said, "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ."

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.1	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:17.8	Hi, and welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:20.0	I am Taylor Kemp, the director of Formed, and with me is Dr. Ben Acres, our chief content officer.
0:25.1	Thanks for having me. It is a joy to be talking about a saint today. Today we are talking about Saint Jerome.
0:31.2	Who is St. Jerome?
0:32.7	St. Jerome is one of my favorite saints.
0:34.6	Okay. It's a great place to start.
0:35.9	I have lots of saints that are my friends.
0:37.9	I hope they count me as their friend.
0:39.7	I'm sure they do.
0:40.5	I hope so.
0:41.1	They're charitable.
0:41.9	Because they're charitable.
0:42.5	Yeah, right, because they're full of charity.
0:43.6	They wouldn't choose.
0:44.7	That's right.
0:45.9	Holiness is the perfection of charity.
0:48.2	That's the definition given in the Second Vatican Council.
0:50.6	There we go. So St. Jerome has been perfected in charity. He's a thing. So he would be my
0:54.6	friend. He is your friend. He is my friend. He is alive. Yes. So he's actually a early church,
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