TRIPLE WOW VIDEO TREAT! This is one of my all time favorite videos on any Roaming Romans trip! This is all part of the Nativity Grotto! One cave, with a recent wall that separates the Nativity where Im filming today! It opens up with a group singing, but what you need to know is directly behind the group is the Manger and the place of birth of Jesus! The wall that separates the grotto of Saint Jerome and the Holy Innocents and the place of birth of Jesus is a relatively new wall! This video wasnt easy to get because I had to wait until the crowds had died down! We actually got lucky in other words! ENJOY! St Jerome’s Cave West Bank From a cave beneath the Church of the Nativity inBethlehem came the most enduring version of theBible ever translated. In this underground study — pleasantly cool in summer but chilly in winter — St Jerome spent 30 years translating the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. The scholarly Dalmatian priest began his task around AD 386. The text he produced in St Jerome’s Cave was the first official vernacular version of the Bible. Known as theVulgate, it remained the authoritative version for Catholics until the 20th century. This version, asserts the historian G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, was “assuredly heard by more Christians than any other”. St Jerome (also known as Hieronymus, the Latin version of Jerome) spent more than 36 years in the Holy Land. He was well-known for his ascetic lifestyle and his passionate involvement in doctrinal controversies. Access to St Jerome’s two-room cave is from theChurch of St . On the right hand side of the nave, steps lead down to a complex of subterranean chambers. At the end, on the right, are the rooms where Jerome lived and worked. The adjacent caves have been identified as the burialplaces of Jerome (whose remains were later taken to Rome), his successor St Eusebius, and Sts Paula and Eustochium. Paula, a noble Roman widow, and her daughter, Eustochium, worked with Jerome in making Bethlehem a great monastic centre. The first cave on the left at the bottom of the stairs is identified as the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. This is said to be the burial place of infants killed by King Herodin his attempt to eliminate the newborn “King of the Jews”.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:44:41 +0000
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