Homage To Jerome, Patron Saint Of Translators

Chronologically among Larbaud's last works, the volume Sous l'invocation de Saint Jérôme opens with this essay celebrating the exemplary figure and mighty achievement of the patron saint of translators: it was Saint Jerome who translated the Bible from Greek into Latin. To Saint Jerome the Christian West owes a large part of the Vulgate, its Book. In Saint Jerome all subsequent translators have had an ancestor and a model.