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.

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.

Jacob de Voragine's Legenda Aurea or " The Golden Legend " comprises a series of vitae or instructive biographical narratives, tied to the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.

* Legenda Aurea: excerpt ( in Latin )

He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.

All in all, during the first five decades of printing in Europe, editions of the Legenda Aurea appeared about two a year.

Beside Legenda Aurea his other chief work is the Chronicon januense (" Chronicle of Genoa "), partly printed in Muratori ( Scriptores Rer.

* Reames, Sherry L. The Legenda Aurea: A Reexamination of Its Paradoxical History ( Madison: University of Wisconsin Press ) 1985.

Another possible work was added to Barbour's canon with the discovery in the library of the University of Cambridge, by Henry Bradshaw, of a long Scots poem of over 33, 000 lines, dealing with Legends of the Saints, as told in the Legenda Aurea and other legendaries.

In Legenda Aurea, compiled around 1275

It was repeated in the 13th century, in Legenda Aurea.

Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single.

* Illustrations of The Golden Legend from the HM 3027 manuscript of Legenda Aurea from the Huntington Library

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According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.

" 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.

St. Isidore of Seville drew together the accumulated anecdotes of St. Simon in De Vita et Morte ; the fully developed aura of legend is presented in the Legenda Aurea ( ca 1260 ).

* Legenda Aurea: Lives of Saints Simon and Jude

The story that he was the son of King Theodore and Queen Pelagia of Athens is probably an embellishment of his early hagiographers ; it was given wide currency in the Legenda Aurea.

His early history, as given in the Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ), links him with Arles, but finally he withdrew deep into the forest near Nîmes, where in the greatest solitude he spent many years, his sole companion being a deer, or red deer, who in some stories sustained him on her milk.

Several Latin and French texts, including the Legenda Aurea refer to this hidden " sin of Charlemagne ".

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 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.

According to Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea of ca.

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.

*" Historia de Sancta Anastasia " ( in Latin ), from Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea.

His story is told in two sagas, Magnus ' saga the shorter and longer and one legend, Legenda de sancto Magno.

In addition to this there are several devotional works in Gaelic and Latin about St Magnus, including a legend, Legenda de sancto Magno.

The rehabilitation of Legenda aurea in the 20th century, now interpreted as a mirror of the heartfelt pieties of the 13th, is attributed to Téodor de Wyzewa, whose retranslation into French, and its preface, have been often reprinted.

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For he compiled the legends of the saints ( Legenda sanctorum ) in one volume, adding many things from the Historia tripartita et scholastica, and from the chronicles of many writers.

The term Partes Transsylvanæ (" parts beyond the forest ") dates from the same century ( used in Legenda Sancti Gerhardi, and subsequently, as Transsilvania by Medieval Latin documents compiled in the Kingdom of Hungary ).

The play Legenda ( Legend ) was based on the famous Polish legend about Wars and Sawa.

The Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, a hagiography of the Breton saint Goeznovius that claims to date from 1019, includes a brief segment dealing with Arthur and Vortigern: this early vita is one of only five insular saints ' lives and two Breton ones that include a mention of Arthur that seems to be independent of Geoffrey of Monmouth's myth-making in Historia Regum Britanniae.

Later tradition places his birth at Crediton, but the earliest mention of Crediton in connection to Boniface is from the early fourteenth century, in John Grandisson's Legenda Sanctorum: The Proper Lessons for Saints ' Days according to the use of Exeter.

The adverse reaction to Legenda aurea under critical scrutiny in the 16th century was led by scholars who reexamined the criteria for judging hagiographic sources and found Legenda aurea wanting ; prominent among the humanists were two disciples of Erasmus, Georg Witzel, in the preface to his Hagiologium, and Juan Luis Vives in De disciplinis.

A Festschrift for Peter Brand ( Oxford: Legenda, 2000 ), 154-77.

Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan ; of Saint Cadoc, written around 1100 or a little before by Lifris of Llancarfan ; medieval biographies of Carannog, Padarn and Eufflam, probably written around the 12th century ; a less obviously legendary account of Arthur appears in the Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, which is often claimed to date from the early 11th century ; William of Malmesbury's De Gestis Regum Anglorum and Herman's De Miraculis Sanctae Mariae Laudensis, which together provide the first certain evidence for a belief that Arthur was not actually dead and would at some point return.