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Pontifical Abbey of St Jerome-in-the-City

Rome, Italy · built 1933

The Pontifical Abbey of St Jerome-in-the-City (Abbatia pontificia sancti Hieronymi in urbe, San Girolamo in urbe) was a Benedictine monastery in Rome founded in 1933 for the purpose of creating a critical edition of the Vulgate. The abbey was dissolved in 1984; their critical edition of the Vulgate is only that of the Old Testament, Catholic deuterocanonicals included, and is known as the Benedictine Vulgate.

Monastery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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