St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate is the most influential Bible translation in the history of western Christendom. As a translation, it’s been astoundingly important — even more than the King James Version.

Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a widely read ...

A five-hundred-year-old bible is the main drawcard at a new community library in Hobart. The Latin Vulgate bible was published in Switzerland in 1477 and is believed to be one of only 27 left in the ...

Versions of the Bible are translations of the Bible into other languages. The following are the most important versions or translations of the Bible. 1. Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the ...

The story is told of the Irish woman, 40 years married and the mother of seven, who left church after hearing a sermon from a young priest on marriage and motherhood and remarked, “Sure and I wish I ...

Readers of the Latin Bible could see how close love and diligence are. Anyone who has studied a foreign language knows the fun of stumbling across a word that looks familiar. It’s like a treasure hunt ...

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