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Lives of Illustrious Men (De Viris Illustribus)

Saint Jerome · c. 392 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; the great biblical scholar of the early Latin Church. Translator of the Vulgate Bible from the Hebrew and Greek originals — the Bible of the Latin West for more than a millennium. Author of innumerable biblical commentaries, polemical works against the heresies of his day, the Lives of Paul and of Malchus the Captive Monk, and the indispensable Letters. Recognized as a saint in both Eastern and Western tradition.

Contents

  1. Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men(137 chapters)
  2. Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men(100 chapters)