Gregory Martin | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:FrMartin.PNG) Old portrait of 16th century Roman Catholic Priest and Bible Translator, Father Gregory Martin | |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | March 1573 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1542 Sussex, England |
| Died | 28 October 1582 Reims, France |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Gregory Martin (c. 1542[1] – 28 October 1582) was an English Catholic priest, a noted scholar of his time, academic and Doctor of Divinity, and served as the chief translator of the Rheims and Douai Version of the Bible, the first full, official Catholic English Bible translation, translated from the Latin Vulgate.
In preparing the translation he was assisted by several of the other scholars then living in the English College, Douai, the most noteworthy of which were Thomas Worthington, Richard Bristowe, William Rainolds (Reynolds), and Cardinal William Allen, but Martin made the whole translation in the first instance and bore the brunt of the work throughout.
- ^ Thomas M. McCoog, ‘Martin, Gregory (1542?–1582)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004