Today is the Feast of St. Jerome, D.octor of the Church who for thirty (30) years painstakingly translated the Bible from Greek to Latin. For this task, he lived in a cave very near the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. He was the first one to use the word "Bible" for the Word of God written by writers under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
St. Jerome's most quoted words are, " Ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of Jesus Christ." Rightly so, because we come to know Jesus through the Word - the Bible- where His life, His Teachings and His Passion, Death and Ressurrection are explained and proclaimed by people who wrote about Him under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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