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Major reason that St. Jerome is the patron of the Cyber Chapel came from
his dedication to the Word of God - Bible, which he translated into Latin.
On the index page you can see the text of his writing. I like to think of
him as patron of web designers too, who work on each page as the scribes
did, spending hours in decorating pages of the Sacred Scriptures. St.
Jerome is one of those people who dedicated himself to the Word. |
Saint Jerome, [in Latin, Eusebius
Hieronymus] (347-419 or 420), was Father of the Church, Doctor of the
Church, and biblical scholar, and whose most important work was a
translation of the Bible into Latin (see Vulgate). Jerome was born in
Stridon, on the border of the Roman provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia,
about 347. After a period of literary study in Rome, he withdrew to the
desert, where he lived as an ascetic and pursued the study of Scripture.
In 379 he was ordained a priest. He then spent three years in
Constantinople (present-day İstanbul) with the Eastern church father,
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. In 382 he returned to Rome, where he was made
secretary to Pope Damasus I and became an influential figure. Many people
placed themselves under his spiritual direction, including a noble Roman
widow named Paula and her daughter, both of whom followed him to the Holy
Land in 385 after the death of Damasus. Jerome fixed his residence at
Bethlehem in 386, after Paula (later Saint Paula) founded four convents
there, three for nuns and one for monks; the latter was governed by Jerome
himself. There he pursued his literary labors and engaged in controversy
not only with heretics Jovinian and Vigilantius and the adherents of
Pelagianism, but also with monk and theologian Tyrannius Rufinus and with
Saint Augustine. Because of his conflict with the bishop of Jerusalem, by
about 395 Jerome found himself threatened with expulsion by the Roman
civil authorities. Although this threat was averted, Jerome's later years
were overshadowed by the sack of Rome in 410, the death of Paula and her
daughter, and his own increasing isolation. |
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