saint jerome

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saint jerome - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Saint Jerome
      n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the
           early Christian Church whose major work was his translation
           of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which
           became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church
           (347-420) [syn: Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome,
           Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
           ]