Events Tagged: "Vulgate"

Death of St. Jerome in Bethlehem - Doctor of the Church, translator of the Vulgate Bible

St. Damasus I becomes thirty-seventh pope - commissions Jerome's Vulgate, fixes biblical canon

St. Jerome begins Vulgate translation - Pope Damasus commissions Latin Bible, 30 years work

Council of Rome confirms biblical canon - Pope Damasus lists canonical books, Jerome commissioned for Vulgate translation

St. Jerome completes Vulgate - standard Bible of Western Church for 1000 years

Alcuin begins Bible revision - works to produce accurate Vulgate text, corrects scribal errors