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    The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda aurea or Legenda sanctorum) is a collection of 153 hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in Europe...
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  • grandparents. This icon is based on legends of that golden bear. Western New England University adopted the Golden Bear as its mascot in the early 1950s...
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    through written text. Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea or "The Golden Legend" comprises a series of vitae or instructive biographical narratives...
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  • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Chinese: 七金屍) is a 1974 martial arts horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker. The film opens in 1804, when seven vampires...
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    Annie Bennett in the 2014 adaptation of Annie, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical...
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    of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval...
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    11th and 12th centuries, but transferred to Libya in the 13th-century Golden Legend. The narrative has pre-Christian origins (Jason and Medea, Perseus and...
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    sources and in later redactions, notably the 14th-century compilation the Golden Legend. Unlike many other scenes in Life of the Virgin cycles (like the Nativity...
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    consider as the perfect model of a black legend, the opposite of a golden legend. The Spanish black legend is a strawman for those who seek convenient...
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    legend relates that Martha then went to Tarascon, France, where a monster, the Tarasque, was a constant threat to the population. The Golden Legend describes...
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    Asllani, première Golden Foot féminine de l'histoire". WORLD SPORTS ACTU (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2023. LEGENDSGoldenFoot “Golden Foot Awards 2012...
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    was recorded by Jacobus de Voragine, Bishop of Genoa, in the Golden Legend. The Golden Legend contains several versions of the origin of the True Cross....
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    most famous account of Mary Magdalene's legendary life comes from The Golden Legend, a collection of medieval saints' stories compiled circa 1260 by the...
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    The Golden Legend is an 1886 cantata by Arthur Sullivan with libretto by Joseph Bennett, based on the 1851 poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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  • The Legend of the Golden Gun is a 1979 American Western television film, starring Jeff Osterhage, Hal Holbrook, Carl Franklin, and Robert Davi. John Golden...
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    Dismas was on the cross to the right of Jesus. In Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, the name of the impenitent thief is given as Gesmas. The impenitent...
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    the 1880s included two cantatas, The Martyr of Antioch (1880) and The Golden Legend (1886), his most popular choral work. He also wrote incidental music...
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    Saint George (section Legend)
    legend of Saint George and the Dragon occurs in the 11th century, in a Georgian source, reaching Catholic Europe in the 12th century. In the Golden Legend...
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    the brother of Jesus are one and the same person. According to the Golden Legend, which is a collection of hagiographies, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine...
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    lives of saints by Jacobus de Voragine, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True Cross – the legend of the wood from the Garden of Eden becoming...
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    Matthew 10:3, Thaddeus is called Judas the Zealot. According to the Golden Legend, which is a collection of hagiographies compiled by Jacobus de Voragine...
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    accumulated anecdotes of Simon in De Vita et Morte. According to the Golden Legend, which is a collection of hagiographies, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine...
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    version, but the most popular variations originated from the 13th-century Golden Legend. According to the legendary account of his life Christopher was initially...
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    The Golden Lotus, and Other Legends of Japan is the title of an 1883 collection of Japanese legends intended for older children, of which Edward Greey...
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    Πλακίδας Eustathios Plakidas) is revered as a Christian martyr. According to legend, he was martyred in AD 118, at the command of emperor Hadrian. Eustace was...
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    a blue cape with a golden lance in his right hand riding on a silver horse. He is shown stabbing a zilant with a lance. The legend in which the flag came...
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    important mediaeval scripts. Here are English translations for The Golden Legend (Volume III) and La Vie de saint Julien Translated by Tony Devaney Morinelli...
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    Acta and his vita in the Golden Legend, he was born at Montpellier, at that time "upon the border of France," as the Golden Legend has it, the son of the...
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    sanctum Raphaelem, sanctum Urielem". In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Golden Legend, Uriel is one of the angels of the seven planets, namely of Mars. He...
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    AZƏRBAYCANA GƏLMİŞDİR". azertag.az. 16 April 2003. Retrieved 28 April 2021. "Golden Legend: Life of St. Bartholomew the Apostle". www.christianiconography.info...
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