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• Jerome

  Jerome (c. 347–420) was a biblical scholar and Church Father of the ancient Western church who translated the Latin Bible known as the Vulgate. In Korean Catholic usage he is called "St. Yeronimo."

• Vulgate

  The Vulgate is the Latin Bible that took shape chiefly through Jerome's translation and revision work in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. It served as the standard text of the Western church from the Middle Ages into the modern era.

• Girolamo Savonarola

  Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) was a Dominican friar and preacher active in Florence, Italy. He denounced corruption in the church and in society, was excommunicated, and was executed. Protestants commonly count him among the forerunners of the Reformation.

• Old Latin Version

  The Old Latin version (Latin: Vetus Latina) is the collective term for the various Latin translations of the Bible used in the Western church from around the second century, before the appearance of Jerome's Vulgate.