Jerome – Letter 68
| Document: | Letter 68 |
| Incipit: | Sanctus filius meus Heraclius |
| Addressee: | Casticianus |
| Date: | 397 (Kelly p. 213) |
| Earliest ms.: | Verona, Italy: Biblioteca Capitolare, XV (13), f. 8th century. (Lambert, I: p. 728) |
| Latin Text: | CSEL 54, pp. 675-678 |
| English Translation: | Fremantle, pp. 140-141 |
| Notes: | Castrutius, a blind man of Pannonia, had set out for Bethlehem to visit Jerome. However, on reaching Cissa (whether that in Thrace or that on the Adriatic is uncertain) he was induced by his friends to turn back. Jerome writes to thank him for his intention and to console him for his inability to carry it out. He then tries to comfort him in his blindness (1) by referring to Christ’s words concerning the man born blind (John 9:3) and (2) by telling him the story of Antony and Didymus. – Fremantle |
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