"I FOLLOW no leader but Christ and join in communion with none but your blessedness [Pope Damasus I], that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that this is the rock on which the Church has been built. Whoever eats the Lamb outside this house is profane. Anyone who is not in the ark of Noah will perish when the flood prevails."
~St. Jerome: Letters 15:2 (A.D. 396).
~St. Jerome: Letters 15:2 (A.D. 396).
St. Jerome in His Study, by Antonio da Fabriano.
Tempera on wood, 1451; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.