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.
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