Note 625 — Chapter XXVI · THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine, is noted chiefly as the author of an Ecclesiastical History which is in many ways our most important source of information on the early Christian Church. He lived about 250-339. St. Jerome was a great Church father of the later fourth century. His name is most commonly associated with the translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into the Latin language. The resulting form of the Scriptures was the Editio Vulgata (the Edition Commonly Received), whence our English term "Vulgate."