Early Church Personalities: Saint Jerome †30 September, 420

 

Saint Jerome in his study

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism,
that in it men's only God is their belly,
that they live only for the present,
and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
                                                                  Saint Jerome, Letter

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