St, Jerome in his Life of St. Hilarion (291-371) writes, "Sacras Scriptures memoriter tenens, post orationes et psalmos quasi Deo praesente recitabat."

In presence of Benedict XIII, antipope, a Spaniard, wandering in Spain, because in Rome they would not own him, a formal disputation was carried on for sixty-nine days between Jerome of Santa Fé and other convertsor, as the Jews not improperly called them, apostateson the one side, and a company of rabbis on the other.

Ambrose and Jerome on the same matter, ibid., c. 15 and 17, Friedberg, i, p. 1255.

In that wonderful painting of Saint Jerome by Domenichino,perhaps the greatest ornament of the Vatican, next to that miracle of art, the "Transfiguration" of Raphael,the saint is represented in repulsive aspects as his soul was leaving his body, ministered unto by the faithful Paula.

And when they went to the theme of investigating if it was a whip or a lash with which the angels have whipped St. Jerome for trying to imitate in his writings the pagan Cicero, it was but after centuries that Abbot Cartaut dared to write that if St. Jerome was whipped at all, he was whipped for having badly imitated Cicero.

"Truly," said Père Jerome to the companion who was to assist him in the mass, "this is a sabbath day which we do not have to make holy, but only to keep so.

But even for his knowledge of the Scholastic philosophy he was the most eminent man in the University, and he was as familiar with the writings of Saint Augustine and Jerome as with those of Aristotle.

Vernet relates, that he was once employed to paint a landscape, with a cave, and St. Jerome in it; he accordingly painted the landscape, with St. Jerome at the entrance of the cave.

Here Basil,one of the commanding intellects of his day, and as learned and polished as he was pious,like Jerome after him, proved himself a great legislator and administrator, including in his comprehensive view both Christian principles and the necessities of the times, and adapting his institution to both.