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| Saint Jerome, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri |
History
Born in the year 342, Saint Jerome
was raised to be a Christian, but when he went to Rome as a young man to
continue his education, he had both Christian and pagan instructors. Little by
little, Jerome started to make his own pleasure more important than anything
else, except on Sundays, when he would visit the tombs of the martyrs. Then he
went on a trip to see the Holy Land. He ended up living with monks in the
desert for four years, where he fought against temptation until he dreamed that
he was being judged for his Christian life. “Where your treasure is, your heart
is also,” the judge said. That’s when Jerome was able to leave behind all his
selfish ways. He became an expert on the Biblical languages and provided a
corrected Latin translation of the New Testament, the psalms and most of the
Old Testament for the Church.
Activity
The Bible was Saint Jerome’s treasure, and that’s where his
heart was. He worked very hard to make sure that all Christians had the most
accurate translation of the Bible. Today, memorize Bible verse that gave Saint Jerome
victory over temptation: Matthew 6:21 – “For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.”
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