ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 10th of May WELCOME! JOB, PATRIARCH Many look upon the entire contents of the [biblical] Book of Job [Hiob] as a freely invented parable which is neither historical nor intended to be considered historical; no such man as Job ever lived. Catholic commentators, however, almost without exception, hold Job to have actually existed and his personality to have been preserved by popular tradition. Nothing in the text makes it necessary to doubt his historical existence. The Scriptures seem repeatedly to take this for granted (cf. Ezekiel 14:14; James 5:11; Tobit 2:12-15, according to the Vulgate — in the Greek text of Tobias there is no mention of Job). All the Fathers considered Job an historical person. The Martyrology of the Latin Church mentions Job on May 10, that of the Greek Church on May 6. The Book of Job, therefore, has a kernel of fact, with which have been united many imaginative additions that are not strict...