This man believed that the virgin state was the superior ideal, leading him to write in an epistle "I praise wedlock, I praise marriage; but only because they produce me virgins."
This man believed that the virgin state was the superior ideal, leading him to write in an epistle "I praise wedlock, I praise marriage; but only because they produce me virgins." His other works includes a dialogue against St. Lucifer of Cagliari and a biography of 135 Christian saints titled De Viris Illustribus. This native of Dalmatia spent much of his early life in the desert of Chalcis, where he became an eremite. He spent the second half of his life in a monastery in Bethlehem, where Saint (*) Paula and Saint Eustochium gave him the inspiration to update the Vetus Itala. This patron saint of librarians was a secretary to Pope Damasus, for whom he produced a "commonly-used" version of the Septuagint.. For 10 points, name this fourth-century Christian father whose Latin translation of the Bible is known as the Vulgate.
This man believed that the virgin state was the superior ideal, leading him to write in an epistle "I praise wedlock, I praise marriage; but only because they produce me virgins."
St. Jerome [or Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius]