The Golden Legend: Selections

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Penguin, 1 במאי 1999 - 432 עמודים
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1229-98) attracted a huge audience across Europe. This selection of over seventy biographies ranges from the first Apostles and Roman martyrs to near-contemporaries such as St Dominic, St Francis of Assissi and St Elizabeth of Hungary. Here, witnesses to the true faith endure horrific tortures; reformed prostitutes win divine forgiveness; while other women live disguised as monks or nobly resist lustful tyrants. Lucid and compelling, The Golden Legend offers an enthralling insight into the medieval mind.

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ST ANDREW APOSTLE 30 November
3
ST NICHOLAS 6 December
11
ST AMBROSE 7 December
16
ST LUCY VIRGIN 13 December
22
ST THOMAS APOSTLE 21 December
25
ST ANASTASIA 21 December
31
ST JOHN APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST 27 December
33
ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY 29 December
39
ST MARY MAGDALENE 22 July
165
ST CHRISTOPHER 25 July
173
THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS 27 July
178
ST MARTHA 29 July
183
ST GERMAIN BISHOP 31 July
186
ST DOMINIC 4 August
191
ST LAURENCE MARTYR 10 August
204
ST BERNARD 20 August
209

ST HILARY 13 January
42
ST ANTHONY ABBOT 17 January
45
ST SEBASTIAN 20 January
50
ST AGNES VIRGIN 21 January
55
ST VINCENT 22 January
58
ST JOHN THE ALMSGIVER 23 January
61
ST IGNATIUS 1 February
69
ST BLAISE 3 February
73
ST AGATHA VIRGIN 5 February
77
ST AMAND 6 February
81
ST JULIANA 16 February
83
ST MATTHIAS APOSTLE 24 February
85
ST GREGORY 12 March
90
ST LONGINUS 15 March
102
ST BENEDICT 21 March
103
ST MARY OF EGYPT 2 April
113
ST GEORGE 23 April
116
ST MARK EVANGELIST 25 April
121
ST MARCELLINUS POPE 26 April
124
ST JAMES THE LESS APOSTLE 1 May
125
ST PETRONILLA 31 May
129
ST BARNABAS APOSTLE 11 June
131
ST BASIL BISHOP 14 June
135
ST QUIRICUS AND HIS MOTHER JULITTA 16 June
141
STS GERVASE AND PROTASE 19 June
143
ST PETER APOSTLE 29 June
146
ST PAUL APOSTLE 30 June
153
ST ALEXIS 17 July
158
ST MARGARET 20 July
162
ST BARTHOLOMEW 24 August
221
ST GILES 1 September
226
ST THEODORA 11 September
229
ST EUPHEMIA 16 September
233
ST EUSTACE 20 September
236
ST JUSTINA 26 September
243
STS COSMAS AND DAMIAN 27 September
248
ST JEROME 30 September
250
ST REMY 1 October
255
ST FRANCIS 4 October
257
ST PELAGIA 8 October
268
ST THAIS COURTESAN 8 October
271
STS DIONYSIUS RUSTICUS AND ELEUTHERIUS 9 October
274
THE ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS 21 October
279
STS CHRYSANTHUS AND DARIA 25 October
283
STS SIMON AND JUDE APOSTLES 28 October
285
ST QUENTIN 31 October
291
THE FOUR CROWNED MARTYRS 8 November
292
ST MARTIN BISHOP 11 November
293
ST BRICE 13 November
302
ST ELIZABETH 19 November
304
ST CECILIA 22 November
317
ST CLEMENT 23 November
323
ST CATHERINE 25 November
333
ST JAMES THE MUTILATED 27 November
339
STS BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT 27 November
343
EXPLANATORY NOTES
359
TEXTUAL VARIANTS
369
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Jacobus de Voragine (c.1229-98) was the medieval Archbishop of Genoa. He entered the Dominican Order in 1244 and became prior of the Order in Lombardy in 1267. In 1292 he became Archbishop and in this capacity was actively engaged in peacemaking between the local feuding families.

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