Saint of the Day - September 30 - St. Jerome, Doctor of Church

St. Jerome, Doctor of Church 331 - 420 Patron of Librarians St. Jerome was a Latin Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church. Jerome made the Bible accessible. He is known as the 4th-5th century scholar who translated the Bible into the language ordinary people could read. At this time, the declining decades of the Roman Empire, the ordinary language was Latin. Jerome's version of the Bible is known as the Vulgate