FD of St Jerome, whose two passions were scholarship and controversy: “I never spared heretics and have always done my utmost that the enemies of the Church should be also my enemies.” As Butlers’ Lives notes: “It seems that sometimes he unwarrantably assumed that those…
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who differed from himself were necessarily the Church’s enemies.” (Art: Leonardo). The zeal of some on #CatholicTwitter often brings him to mind. But props for translating the entire Bible from He res and Greek into Latin while living in a cave!
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