Saint Heliodorus
- Memorial
- 3 July
- Profile
- A soldier in his youth.
Close friend and financial supporter of Saint Jerome, and helped with the logistics of the translation of the Vulgate Bible.
Followed Jerome to the east, but declined the life of a desert hermit.
Bishop of Altinum, a small town near Venice which has since disappeared.
Fierce opponent of Arianism.
- Born
- 332 at Dalmatia
- Died
- 390 of natural causes at Altino, Italy
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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