St. Jerome

    St. Jerome the Priest (341-420), outside the Croatian Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue, sculpted by Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic.

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    1. Rosa Klein (75 months ago | reply)

      Mestrovic's statue of St. Jerome the Priest (1954)is in front of the Croatian Embassy in Washington DC'.
      Jerome (341-420) was born in Stridon, Croatia and became a noted clerical scholar. He later moved to Bethlehem and wrote numerous commentaries on the Bible. He is credited with being the first to translate the Bible from Hebrew into Latin.
      This statue originally sat on the grounds of the Franciscan Abbey, but was moved to its present location in front of the Croatian Embassy after the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the creation of the Croatian state.
      In 1951 a house was purchased in Washington, D.C. with the intention of providing a formation house for American vocations to the Province. St. Jerome House of Studies was later converted to serve as a locale for pastoral service to Croatian Catholics in the Washington area. In front of this building there is an impressive bronze statue of St. Jerome, the work of the famous Croatian-American artist Ivan Mestrovic , who has contemporary, but unique style, the greatest sculptor since the Renaissance in religious art. He was the first person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
      An amazing person as an outspoken opponent to the repressive Austro-Hungarian empire and then the Nazi regime. He came to the United States in 1947 and taught at Syracuse and Notre Dame universities. In 1954, he became a citizen of the USA at a ceremony conducted by President Eisenhower at the White House. He died in 1962. Mestrovic's remains were brought from the United States to Croatia and are presently in the family Mausoleum in Otavice, Drnis, Croatia.
      There are two Mestrovic museums in the USA, at Notre Dame, Indiana and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LASM).There is a large collection of his art at Syracuse University as well monuments in Chicago , Washington DC,New York , The Mayo Clinic, Minnesota , St. Augustine and Miami, Florida, Buffalo, N.Y. , Hawaii etc.
      Mestrovic's works in bronze, stone, and wood can be found in galleries, museums and private collections in Croatia,Serbia, Montenegro, England, Austria, Canada, Ireland, Italy ,France, Vatican, Israel, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Macedonia etc.

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