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Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.
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He is also often depicted with a lion, " a figment " found in the thirteenth-century Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, and less often with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.
Jacobus de Voragine gives the common account of the transfer of the relics of Mary Magdalene from her sepulchre in the oratory of Saint Maximin at Aix-en-Provence to the newly founded abbey of Vézelay ; the transportation of the relics is entered as undertaken in 771 by the founder of the abbey, identified as Gerard, duke of Burgundy.
The Dominican monk Jacobus de Voragine in his Golden Legend reported the legend that Mary Magdalene was betrothed to St John the Evangelist, who left his bride at the altar to follow Jesus, dismissing it as a " false and frivolous tale ".
Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, compiled the Legenda Sanctorum, ( Readings of the Saints ) also known as Legenda Aurea ( the Golden Legend ) for its worth among readers.
Image: Jacobus de Dacia. jpg | Detail of altar: a Franciscan friar, possibly intended for Brother Jacob the Dacian
This version combined with anecdotes of Pilate's wicked early life were incorporated in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, which ensured a wide circulation for it in the later Middle Ages.
Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine ( ( c. 1230 – July 13 or July 16, 1298 ) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.
* Sermones. net-édition électronique d ' un corpus de sermons latins médiévaux: academic website, with an electronic annotated edition of the model sermons collections composed by Jacobus de Voragine ( the first collection published is the Sermones Quadragesimales, 98 texts ).
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As early as 1260, Jacobus de Voragine noted in his Golden Legend that the account of Philip's life given by Eusebius was not to be trusted.
The Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, compiled about 1260 and one of the most-read books of the High Middle Ages, gives sufficient details of the saints for each day of the liturgical year to inspire a homily on each occasion.
* " The Life of Saint Christopher ", The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, Temple Classics, 1931 ( Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Translated by William Caxton ) at the Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook
The Golden Legend ( Latin: Legenda aurea or Legenda sanctorum ) is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller.
Jacobus and Legenda
" In ' Lucy ' is said, the way of light " Jacobus de Voragine stated at the beginning of his vita of the Blessed Virgin Lucy, in Legenda Aurea, the most widely-read version of the Lucy legend in the Middle Ages.
The thirteenth-century telling of the legend can be read in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea The cultus of Mary Magdalene and this Saint Maximin in Provence was centered at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.
The legend of the Archangel's apparition at Gargano is related in the Roman Breviary for May 8, as well as in the Golden Legend ( Legenda Aurea ), the compendium of Christian mythology compiled by Jacobus de Voragine between 1260-1275.
His chief, but by no means his only, source was the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, archbishop of Genoa, whom he cites as Januence.
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The dragon motif was first combined with the already standardised Passio Georgii in Vincent of Beauvais ' encyclopedic Speculum Historiale, and then Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( ca 1260 ) guaranteed its popularity in the later Middle Ages as a literary and pictorial subject.
The work was popular and was widely distributed, showing that it catered well to the tastes of the times ; it was perhaps the second largest late mediaeval best-seller, second only to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine reached such popularity that, in its time, it was reportedly read more often than the Bible.
For inspiration, painters in both Italy and northern Europe frequently turned to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( 1260 ), a highly influential source book for the lives of saints that had already had a strong influence on Medieval artists.
* The Lives of the Seven Sleepers from The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton Middle English translation.
Jacobus de Voragine in the Golden Legend credited him as a bishop at Formia over all the Italian Campania, as a hermit on Mount Lebanon, and a martyr in the persecutions under Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian.
" One of the sources for Grim is Machiavelli's novel Belfagor arcidiavolo ; the play's treatment of Saint Dunstan draws upon the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
A century later, the story of taking a thorn from a lion's paw was related as an act of Saint Jerome in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine ( c. 1260 ).
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