
Walter John Burghardt
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LOCATION: Washington, DC, United States
Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Author of Preaching the Just Word and others.
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St. Jerome ; feast day September 30) was a biblical translator and monastic leader, traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and about 389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His…
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