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Events

• St. Jerome translated the Old Scripture from Hebrew into Latin at the command of Blessed Damasus; his version, called the Vulgate, has been publicly followed and approved by the Church for a thousand years

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• The Septuagint Translation and Greek Translators — Jerome's Vulgate translation

  "Finally, St. Jerome, the sun of the Latin Church, at the command of Blessed Damasus, translated the Old Scripture from Hebrew into Latin, whose version, now called the Vulgate for a thousand years, the Church publicly follows and approves"