International translation day

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We can say that translators have gained popularity since the time of the destruction of the Tower of Babel, although professional holiday they have appeared only in 1991 year.

International translation day is celebrated on the day of the death of St. Jerome Stidonskogo, human perevedshego the Bible in Latin, and which is considered to be the protector of the people of this profession.

Jerome is known as one of the four Latin fathers of the Church. He was a writer, historian and translator and was a man with a mighty intellect and very temperamental.

In his youth, Jerome traveled and lived as a recluse, studying the Chaldean and Hebrew languages, and much later, settling finally in Bethlehem, started a translation of the old and New Testaments into Latin. This work took him a long time and only eleven centuries, was declared as the official Latin text of Scripture.

According to one legend, once Jerome pulled out a splinter, deeply zasevshuju in the paw of the lion. Since then, the patron saint of translators is depicted sitting in a cell and something a contributing scholar, near which lies the lion, who became his devoted friend.

In our time, the profession of the translator has not lost its relevance and enjoys great popularity both in ordinary already translated texts, and in business, business talks with foreign partners.