Saint Jerome the Dalmatian

The first modern biography that systematically portrays the life of Saint Jerome, one of the best known and most important great men with significant influence on culture, language and literature

After The Life of Saint Jerome the Presbyter by Marko Marulić and the book Natale solum sancti Hieronymi by Josip Bedeković from the 18th century, Slobodan Prosperov Novak’s monograph Saint Jerome the Dalmatian is the first modern biography that systematically portrays the life of Saint Jerome, one of the best known and most important great men of the world born on Croatian soil, and his influence on not only the culture, language and literature of his homeland – Dalmatia and entire Croatia – but also on the culture of the Western Christian world.

Monograph of one of one of the most important saints in the history of Christianity, Christian culture and European civilisation. Forgive me, God, for I am a Dalmatian.— Saint Jerome

Ille meus est, et ego suum – He is mine, I am his, wrote Marko Marulić adopting Saint Jerome the Dalmatian as his patron saint and theological role model, admiring sincerely his erudition, theological acuteness and exegetic skills.

This monograph is also a fruit of sincere admiration for Jerome’s greatness. Slobodan Prosperov Novak demonstrates that even today, 1600 years after his death, Saint Jere shines with unscathed brightness as one of the brightest stars in our sky. — Prof. Ivan Bodrožić, PhD