St. Jerome was a prominent biblical translator and monastic leader, celebrated as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He served as a hermit, a priest, and secretary to Pope Damasus I before establishing a monastery in Bethlehem c. 389. He has been designated a doctor of the church, a title granted to saints in the Roman Catholic Church whose writings and teachings are of particular importance.
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