The Translator Saints
I am a lover of languages, and so reading about saints famous for translating (particularly translating Scripture) is incredibly interesting for me. For those few who are like me, I decided to collect, in quick, summary forms, stories of some famous saints renowned for their translation efforts. These are only some of the many, but they are important even in their incompleteness. If you know of any other saints famous for translating Scripture, please let me know, either via e-mail or in the comments. *** The Seventy Scholars of Alexandria (2nd century BC): I have never actually heard of these considered to be saints, but their importance is incomparable. These are the seventy Jewish scholars gathered into Alexandria by Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt to translate the Scriptures into Greek, leading to the Septuagint (often referred to as the LXX, the Roman numerals for seventy). This Greek translation of the Old Testament was the version of Scriptu...