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✦ Feast Day c. AD 347–420

Feast of Jerome

Jerome's significance for Marian theology is primarily polemical: he identified Helvidius as the first writer known to him who denied Mary's perpetual virginity after the birth of Christ. A doctrine that goes uncontested for three centuries is a tradition; the novelty was Helvidius's rejection of it.