ABSTRACT

Eusebius Hieronymus Born: Between 331 and 347; Stridon, Dalmatia (modern Yugoslavia) Died: Probably 420; Bethlehem, Palestine Areas of Achievement: Scholarship, monasticism, and religion Contribution: Because of his scholarship, commentaries on and translation of the Bible

into Latin, and role as a propagandist for celibacy and the monastic life, Jerome is numbered with Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, and Gregory the Great as one of the Fathers of the Church.