Top 10 Things to See at the Borghese Gallery in Rome
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1St. Jerome By Caravaggio (Room VIII)
St. Jerome is a wonderful painting that shows one of the most important events in Christian history: the translation of the Bible from Greek to Latin.
Many take for granted how difficult it was to spread knowledge for a very long time. Today, we have Google to do everything for us, as scary as that is. But if you were a Christian living in Rome in the fourth century and didn’t speak Greek, you really weren’t much of a Christian until St. Jerome. His Latin translation allowed the people of Rome who only spoke Latin to read and adopt the bible.
Sea turtles are among the cutest animals populating our seas. It doesn’t come as a surprise that both divers and snorkelers are always very happy to spot them and swim with them.
