feast day

Today is the feast day of St. Jerome, according to a post made by the Congregational Library facebook page and then corroborated by Wikipedia.

You may well be wondering why I bring this up, since I'm definitely not Catholic. Well, Jerome is the man who translated the Bible into Latin, creating the Vulgate, which was used until the Reformation, when Martin Luther went back to the original texts, inspiring a surge in popular language translations.

More to the point, Jerome is also the patron saint of archeologists, archivists, Bible scholars, librarians, libraries, schoolchildren, students and translators. In essence, Jerome is the patron saint of everyone I know--the patron saint of nerds.

So today we celebrate nerdiness. Rock on, Jerome, rock on.

-Kim