Saint Jerome by Edward L Cutts

Today’s free book is a biography of Saint Jerome from The Fathers For English Readers series. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.

Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Saint Jerome. The Fathers for English Readers. London: SPCK, n.d. Hbk. pp.230. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

1. Birth and Education of Jerome
2. Rome in the Fourth Century
3. Student Life in Rome
4. The Patrician Devotees of Rome
5. Jerome Embraces the Ascetic Life
6. Antioch and Desert of Chalcis
7. New Rome
8. The Secretary of the Roman See
9. The Spiritual Director
10. The Controversy with Helvidus and Jovinian
11. The Mirror of the Clergy
12. The Death of Blesilla
13. Jerome’s Defence
14. The Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
15. Egypt
16. The Fathers of the Desert
17. Bethlehem
18. Life in the Contents Bethlehem
19. His Literary Works
20. The Origentistic Controversy
21. The Visit of Fabiola
22. The Apologia Rufinum
23. The Death of Paula
24. The Controversy with Augustine
25. The Fall of Rome—Fugitives at Bethlehem
26. The Death of Jerome

Main image: Saint Jerome – From Andre Thevet (1584) Vrais pourtraits et vies des homes illustres. For more images of church fathers, click here.