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Hieronymus, in English pronounced / h aɪ ˈ r ɒ n ɪ m ə s / or / h ə ˈ r ɒ n ɪ m ə s /, is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos), meaning "with a sacred name".
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 342–347 AD. [4] He was of Illyrian ancestry. [6] He was not baptized until about 360–369 in Rome, where he had gone with his friend Bonosus of Sardica to pursue rhetorical and philosophical studies. (This Bonosus may or may not have been the same Bonosus whom Jerome identifies as his ...
Hieronymus Bosch, General Resources, ColourLex; Bosch, the Fifth Centenary Exhibition: At the Prado; Works at Open Library; K. Katelyn Hobbs, "Ecce Homo by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch (cat. 352)" [permanent dead link ] in The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works, a Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication.
Geronimo, Hieronymus, Jerónimo Jerome is a masculine name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek given name Ἱερώνυμος , Hierōnymos , "sacred name"; from ἱερός, hierós , "sacred", and ὄνυμα, ónyma , an alternative form of ὄνομα, ónoma , "name".
Hieronymus Bosch, in a c. 1550 drawing once thought to be a copy of a self-portrait. His age in this representation (believed to be around 60 years) has been used to estimate his date of birth, although its attribution remains uncertain.
Christ in Limbo, by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch Parallels in Jewish literature refer to legends of Enoch and Abraham's harrowings of the Underworld, unrelated to Christian themes. These have been updated in Isaac Leib Peretz 's short story " Neilah in Gehenna ", in which a Jewish hazzan descends to Hell and uses his unique voice to bring ...
The ship of fools, 1549 German woodcut illustration for Brant's book. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: . Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
The Hieronymites or Jeronimites, also formally known as the Order of Saint Jerome (Latin: Ordo Sancti Hieronymi; abbreviated OSH), is a Catholic cloistered religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks living according to the Rule of Saint Augustine, though the role principle of their lives is that of the 5th-century hermit and biblical scholar Jerome.