*" Of St. Ambrose " from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

Many of the tales in the Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr. Brennan.

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.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

* Version in Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

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.

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 ".

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

* The Golden Legend: Polycarp of Smyrna

* " Of Saint Agnes " from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

Chief among the legendary sources about the saint is the Golden Legend, which remains the most familiar version in English owing to William Caxton's 15th-century translation.

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.

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

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* 1260 – Jacobus de Varagine compiles his work, the Golden Legend, a late medieval best-seller.

Category: Saints of the Golden Legend

In medieval Europe, the Golden Legend became refined by Jacopo da Voragine.

* Jacobus de Voragine compiles his work, the Golden Legend, a late medieval best-seller.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

In Jacobus de Voragine's " Golden Legend " the name of the impenitent thief is given as Gesmas.

The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

* 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.

Jacobus de Voragine ( 1230 – 98 ) described James as a " Nazarene " in The Golden Legend, vol 7.

This brief tale was extended and moralized in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( c. 1260 ).

The story was popularized in Jacobus de Voragine's " Golden Legend " ( c. 1260 ).

" 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.

*" Here Followeth the Life of St. Agatha ," from Jacobus Voragine, The Golden Legend, tr.

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.

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 ).