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Also Known As Sophronius • Eusebius Hieronymus
Born c.347
Died 419 or 420 • Bethlehem
Subjects Of Study monasticism

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Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Origen
Christian theologian
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
Theodore Of Mopsuestia
Syrian theologian
Saint Ephraem Syrus
Christian theologian
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
Gregory Martin
British scholar
Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
St. Clement of Alexandria
Christian theologian
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
St. Cyprian
Christian theologian and bishop [died 258]
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Byzantine theologian