Saint Jerome and the Tale of Malchus the Monk

From the cutting room floor

The Vulgate was the great work of Saint Jerome’s life. But a lesser known fact is that Jerome had a second project, one which is a kind of model for my own Manly Saints Project. Saint Jerome was planning to write a history of the world from the life of Christ up to his own day. And that history, it seems, would have featured tales of manly adventure, mo…