St. Jerome, 4th Century translator of The Bible

                                                                                                  

In the 4th Century St. Jerome built a monastery near the basilica of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and also houses for three communities of women. Jerome himself lived and worked in a large cave near the Saviour's birthplace. He opened a free school there and also a hospice for pilgrims, "so that," as Paula said, "should Mary and Joseph visit Bethlehem again, they would have a place to stay." ...Here bread and herbs, planted with our own hands, and milk, all country fare, furnish us plain and healthy food. In summer the trees give us shade. In autumn the air is cool and the falling leaves restful. In spring our psalmody is sweeter for the singing of the birds. We have plenty of wood when winter snow and cold are upon us. But St. Jerome is mostly known for translating the Hebrew Bible in the the 4th Century Latin Language of the Peoples..Read More....