Dissertationes Paulinorum, 2025, Tom 34, cz. 1

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    San Girolamo e la sua “Vita S. Pauli Monachi Thebaei” (uno schizzo)
    Degórski, Bazyli (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Zakonu Świętego Pawła Pierwszego Pustelnika, 2025)
    Of the three monastic Vitae written by Jerome, the Vita S. Pauli was the one that was most favourably received and also remained the most cherished in the eyes of its author. This early work, so expressive even in its essentiality, so consonant with the author’s sentiments, so new and indispensable for the ardent neophytes of the ascetic life, remains the masterpiece of Western monastic literature. Suffice it to recall that two Greek, one Syriac, one Coptic, one Georgian, one Armenian, one Coptic-Arabic, one Early Slavonic, one Ethiopian reviews have come down to us, that the manuscript copies are numerous, and the publishers equally numerous. The figure of the Theban saint was never retouched in later Latin literature, all patristic texts that mention him present him exactly as Jerome. Certainly, the Dalmatian had taken special care in gathering reliable information about his hero, but the value of this biography is certainly not to be found in its historical reliability, but rather in its spiritual depth, in the acute insight with which Jerome grasped the essential traits of hermitism. From this the Life draws its intensity, and remains sculpted in the reader’s imagination, just as it remained indelible in the memory of Jerome himself. Throughout his life, he would return to this writing, repeat its contents, keep its protagonist’s presence alive; thus, for example, when, addressing an elderly monk, he praises longevity as the fruit of monastic virtue; or when, writing a treatise on chastity for his young spiritual daughter Eustochium, he presents Paul of Thebes as a lofty model of life in God; or again when he incites Paulinus of Nola, a young writer animated by contemplative zeal, to the life of the desert, of which the first among the princes is Paul. This ‘man of extraordinary holiness’ will be much quoted in Jerome’s later works, more so than others of whom he makes mention only rarely and occasionally.