St. Jerome is important for his extensive knowledge of the classics, the Bible, and Christian tradition. He is known particularly for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, which was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382. Though initially met with suspicion, Jerome’s Vulgate gained widespread acceptance and became the standard Latin Bible throughout Western Christendom until the Protestant Reformation. The Council of Trent in 1546 decreed the Vulgate as the exclusive Latin authority for the Bible.
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