Today we turn our attention to St Jerome, a Church Father who centered his life on the Bible: he translated it into Latin, commented on it in his works, and above all, strove to live it in practice. He left for the East and lived as a hermit in the Desert of Chalcis, devoting himself assiduously to study. Meditation, solitude and contact with the Word of God helped his Christian sensibility to mature. In 386 he stopped in Bethlehem. He stayed there until he died, continuing to do a prodigious amount of work: he commented on the Word of God; he defended the faith… Jerome's literary studies and vast erudition enabled him to revise and translate many biblical texts. —St Jerome said: «Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ».