Day 3 – 11. Grotto of St.Jerome

Grotto of St.Jerome

Grotto of St.Jerome

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In Bethlehem, near the Grotto of the Nativity, the Grotto of St.Jerome the place where St. Jerome lived and was buried was commemorated on September 30. The Doctor of the Church dedicated his life to the Word of God, and precisely in the town of Judea, he completed his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate.
In Bethlehem, in front of the church dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, home of the parish of the Latin rite, a large earthenware statue of St. Jerome occupies the center of the cloister named after the doctor and father of the Church, who is remembered on Sept. 30. On that date – in 419 or 420 – Jerome died in his cell (Grotto of St. Jerome) a few steps away from the Grotto of the Nativity. Here the saint, a native of Dalmatia, had settled more than thirty years previously, and here his remains were buried, then transported to Rome much later by the Crusaders.
In the same places, restored some 40 years ago by the Franciscan father Alberto Farina, are also remembered other members of the community that followed St. Jerome in this holy place, such as St. Eusebius of Cremona, the Roman widow Paola and her daughter Eustochium. They are also buried here, in the caves that pilgrims can still visit today, separated by only a thin wall of rock from the cave where Jesus was born.
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