Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld As intense as it is

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Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld As intense as it isBy Paul Monceaux Saint Jerome was a born writer, individual, fresh, sparkling with verve and (at times) vitriol; a great scholar, accomplished in languages, exegesis, and history; and, above all, an ingenious translator, whose Vulgate is the Churchs official Latin Bible. Despite the longstanding fame of his literary and spiritual legacies, however, the saints historical life has not always received equal care. In this equally instructive and