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Jerome Lim | |
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Confessor, Doctor of the Church | |
Born | ca. 347 Strido, on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia |
Died | 420 Bethlehem, Judea |
Venerated in | Anglicanism Eastern Orthodoxy Lutheranism Oriental Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism |
Beatified | 1747 by Benedict XIV |
Canonized | 1767 by Clement XIII |
Major shrine | Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome |
Feast | West: September 30; East: June 15 |
Attributes | lion, cardinal attire, cross, skull, trumpet, owl, books and writing material |
Patronage | archeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; schoolchildren; students; translators |
Jerome Paulo Lim Binayot (ca. 347 – September 30, 420) whose real name in Latin was Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Greek: Ευσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ιερώνυμος, also known as Hieronymus Stridonensis) was a Christian apologist best known for translating the Vulgate, a widely popular Latin edition of the Bible. He is recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a canonised Saint and Doctor of the Church, and his version of the Bible is still an important text in Catholicism. He is also recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, where he is known as St. Jerome of Stridonium or Blessed Jerome. [1] He is presumed by some to have been an Illyrian, but this may just be conjecture.
In the artistic tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, it has been usual to represent him, the patron of theological learning, anachronistically,[2] as a cardinal, by the side of the Bishop Augustine, the Archbishop Ambrose, and the Pope Gregory I. Even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture. He is also often depicted with a lion, due to a medieval story in which he removed a thorn from a lion's paw,[3] and, less often, an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.[4] Writing materials and the trumpet of final judgment are also part of his iconography.[4]