Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . alatable, itmay become an imj)0it-ant article of consump-tion. The price is three-halfpence or two-pence per pound. JERKIN-HEAD, aform of rooting whichis half-gable, gable generally goesas high as the ties ofthe couples, above which the roof is hipped off. JEROME, St (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophro-Nirs), was born at .Stridon, a town whose site is nowunknown, on tlie confines of Dalmatia and Pannonia,at some period between and 345—probablynearer to the latter year. His parents were bothChristians. His early ed
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . alatable, itmay become an imj)0it-ant article of consump-tion. The price is three-halfpence or two-pence per pound. JERKIN-HEAD, aform of rooting whichis half-gable, gable generally goesas high as the ties ofthe couples, above which the roof is hipped off. JEROME, St (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophro-Nirs), was born at .Stridon, a town whose site is nowunknown, on tlie confines of Dalmatia and Pannonia,at some period between and 345—probablynearer to the latter year. His parents were bothChristians. His early education was superintendedby his father, after which he studied Greek andLatin rhetoric and philosajthy under Mhus Donatusat Rome, where he was also admitted to the rite ofbaptism. After a residence in Gaul, he seems toLave revisited Rome ; but in the year 370, he hadsettled in Aquileia with his friend Rufiuus. Forsome unknown reason, he suddenly went hence tothe East; and after a dangerous illness at Antioch,which appears to have still fuither added to the. Jerkin-Head. religious fervour of his disposition, he retired, in374, to the desert of Chalcis, where he spent fouryears in penitential exercises and in study, especiallyof the Hebrew language. In 379, he was ordaineda priest at Antioch, after which he spent three yearsin Constantinople in close intimacy with Gregoryof Nazianzus ; and in 382 he came on a missionconnected with the Meletian schism at Antioch (seeMeletius) to Rome, where he resided, imtil 385, assecretary of the poi)e Damasus, and where, althoughalready engaged in his great work of the revisionof the Latin version of the Bible, he attainedto great popularity and influence by his sanctity,learning, and eloquence. Many pious persons pdacedthemselves under his spiritual direction, the mostremarkal)le of whom were the Lady Paula, andher daughter Eustochium. These ladies followedhim to the Holy Land, whither he returned in . permanently fixed his residence
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