{"slug": "jerome", "label": "Jerome", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44248", "qid": "Q44248", "description": "4th and 5th-century Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [340, 1546], "span_label": ["340 CE", "1546 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 9}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vulgate", "label": "Vulgate", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "bethlehem", "label": "Bethlehem", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "latin", "label": "Latin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerusalem", "label": "Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cicero", "label": "Cicero", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantius-ii", "label": "Constantius II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 340, "year_label": "340 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Jerome, priest and Bible translator (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281359942#Births", "title": "340", "revid": 1281359942, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 347, "year_label": "347 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Bible (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074920#Births", "title": "347", "revid": 1267074920, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 359, "year_label": "359 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July", "text": "July – Emperor Constantius II convenes the Council of Rimini, to resolve the crisis over Arianism in the Church. Some 400 bishops of the Western portion of the Roman Empire attend, while the Eastern bishops simultaneously hold a meeting at Seleucia. Given Saint Jerome's comment that, \"The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian\", it appears to have failed. Pope Liberius rejects the new creed at Rimini.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332409759#Religion", "title": "359", "revid": 1332409759, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 375, "year_label": "375 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Saint Jerome retires to the desert of Chalcis (Syria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205031#Religion", "title": "375", "revid": 1349205031, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 382, "year_label": "382 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Council of Rome establishes Biblical canon in the Catholic Church. Pope Damasus I commissions a revision of the Vetus Latina, eventually resulting in the Vulgate of Jerome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370628973#Religion", "title": "382", "revid": 1370628973, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 384, "year_label": "384 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerome, Christian prophet, writes his celebrated letter \"De custodia virginitatis\" (vow of virginity) to Eustochium, daughter of the ascetic Paula. He has by this time completed his Vulgate translation of the Gospels.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741473#Religion", "title": "384", "revid": 1364741473, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 385, "year_label": "385 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Roman synod exiles the prophet Jerome, who has incorporated ideas first propounded by the Roman statesman Cicero. He departs for Egypt, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, accompanied by the Christian ascetic Paula, who will edit Jerome's translation of the Bible, which becomes the Latin Vulgate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1280220298#Roman_Empire", "title": "385", "revid": 1280220298, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 388, "year_label": "388 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Jerome moves to Palestine, where he spends the rest of his life as a hermit near Bethlehem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321355496#Religion", "title": "388", "revid": 1321355496, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Religion", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 402, "year_label": "402 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerome writes \"Apologiae contra Rufinum\" and \"Liber tertius seu ultima responsio adversus scripta Rufini\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326555519#Religion", "title": "402", "revid": 1326555519, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerome's Vulgate translation of the Bible into Latin is completed by his translations of the Tanakh from the Hebrew language.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Religion", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 420, "year_label": "420 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Bible", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371542443#Deaths", "title": "AD 420", "revid": 1371542443, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1298, "year_label": "1298 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071319#Religion", "title": "1298", "revid": 1363071319, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – The Council of Trent, by a vote of 24 to 15, with 16 abstentions, issues the Decretum de Canonicis Scripturis for the scripture considered to be canon by the Roman Catholic Church. The decree recites that if anyone declines to receive all parts of the Vulgate edition of the Bible, they are in contempt of the Church and should be excommunicated. and approves the 4th century Vulgate of Jerome as its official Bible", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#April–June", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}