From: a24061@ducksburg.com   
      
   On 2024-09-30, Ross Clark wrote:   
      
   > United Nations. 2017. "to celebrate the role of language professionals".   
   >   
   > It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of   
   > translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists,   
   > librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)   
      
   I was going to ask about the patron saint of non-military linguists,   
   but I found this on Gretchen McCulloch's blog:   
      
   Saint Gotteschalk, Patron Saint of Linguists   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   >   
   > Jerome's translations made up the standard Latin text of the Bible (the   
   > Vulgate).   
   > The UN has a St Jerome Translation Contest (2005-), for "the best   
   > translations into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and   
   > German".   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome   
      
      
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