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Good Thief

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Good Thief or Penitent Thief, in the New Testament, the malefactor crucified with Jesus who did not revile Him; Jesus promised him Paradise that day. In the Roman martyrology his feast is Mar. 25. His name in tradition is Dismas or Desmas, that of the other thief Gesmas.


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Others consider lesser known sides of Jerome: letters he wrote from Rome, early translations from Greek, his feeling for the last-minute conversion of the good thief on Golgotha.
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