Today, 30 September, is the feast of...
Jerome, doctor (420): His father took great care to have his son
instructed in religion and in the first principles of letters and sent
him to Rome for education. Jerome had there as a tutor the famous pagan
grammarian Donatus. Concerning his translation of the Bible, Butler
writes: "His new translation from the Hebrew of most of the books of the
Old Testament was the work of his years of retreat at Bethlehem ... He
did not translate the books in order, but began by the books of Kings,
and took the rest in hand at different times. The only parts of the
Latin Bible called the Vulgate which were not either translated or
worked over by Jerome are the books of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch
and the two books of Machabees."
Gregory the Enlightener, bishop of Ashtishat (330): Also known as the
'Illuminator', he evangelized Armenia. At the Council of Nicaea, he was
represented by his son, St Aristakes.
Honorius, archbishop of Canterbury (653): A Roman monk, in 644 he
consecrated the first English bishop, St Ithamar.
Simon de Crepy (1082): Count of Crepy in Valois, and a relative of
Matilda the wife of William the Conqueror, he escaped an arranged
marriage by entering the abbey of St-Claude at Condat (Jura). He
assisted pope Gregory VII in his negotiations with the Normans, and
received last rites from the same pope.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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