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    Golden Legend (redirect from Aurea Legenda)
    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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  • Legenda Aurea was a heavy metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, where they were formed in 2005, while they play a style of gothic metal, power metal, and...
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    sources, but especially in the story of St. Martha in the Golden Legend (Legenda aurea), which was "the most influential". In Provence, France, the monster...
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    in Europe, editions of the Legenda Aurea appeared at a rate of about two per year. Almost as popular as the Legenda Aurea were Jacobus' collected sermons...
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  • Ducati Aurea, a motorcycle made from 1958 to 1962 Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine Legenda Aurea (band)...
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    in the original sense, through written text. Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea or "The Golden Legend" comprises a series of vitae or instructive biographical...
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    hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in the 14th-century Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Mediolanum (Milan)...
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    Miniature from a manuscript of Legenda Aurea, Paris, 1348. Book of Hours (c. 1380?). Miniature from a manuscript of Legenda Aurea, Paris, 1382. De Grey Hours...
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    imprisoned and later beheaded. He died on September 25, AD 303. In Legenda aurea several miracles attended the discovery and translation of the relics...
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    Dragon, ms. of the Legenda Aurea, dated 1348 (BNF Français 241, fol. 101v.) Miniature of George and the Dragon, ms. of the Legenda Aurea, Paris, 1382 (BL...
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    and by the River Gard in Septimania in the Visigothic Kingdom. The Legenda Aurea links him with Arles, but finally he withdrew deep into the forest near...
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    Miniature of Saint George and the Dragon, ms. of the Legenda Aurea, dated 1348 (BNF Français 241, fol. 101v.)...
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  • century, one of several similar Byzantine works. The thirteenth-century Legenda Aurea, as written by Jacobus de Varagine, begins each vita of a saint with...
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    inscriptions from the Catacombs of St. John in Syracuse. Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea was the most widely read version of the Lucy legend in the Middle Ages...
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    rubric to these lines declare, the nun draws her etymologies from the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (Jacobus Januensis - James of Genoa - in the...
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  • Translations of the Legenda Aurea,' in Legenda aurea: Sept siècles de diffusion. Actes du colloque international sur la 'Legenda aurea': texte latin et branches...
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    Valentine", which is said to have "inspired today's romantic missives". The Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, compiled in about 1260 and one of the most-read...
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    appearances of "Simon" in the New Testament (mostly referring to Simon Peter) Legenda Aurea: Lives of Saints Simon and Jude "St. Simon the Apostle" in the Catholic...
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    Whitby, and the third was a popular compendium of saints lives, the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend, undoubtedly in the form of a translation. The monastery...
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    parents of Mary. Stories about Anne form part of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, but her mother is not mentioned. An early source mentioning Emerentia...
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    also printed the first large illustrated book, Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea in 2 volumes with 131 woodcuts, 1471–76. Johann Zainer, the first printer...
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    depictions that varied considerably. According to a story from the Legenda Aurea, retold by Eelco Verwijs in his 1863 monograph Sinterklaas, one of the...
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    martyred by immolation. The year of his martyrdom is cited as 287 in the legenda aurea, but later tradition including Butler has the year 306. His relics were...
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    Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis. (in Latin) Butler, Pierce (1899), Legenda Aurea—Légende Dorée—Golden Legend: A Study of Caxton's Golden Legend, Johns...
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    Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha, vol. II (Philadelphia) 1964. Legenda Aurea. "Joyce Tally Lionarons". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04....
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  • Asenora to be tamed and converted. Characters attribute the story to Legenda Aurea: Readings on the Saints, but although this is the title of an actual...
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  • sources. The poet cites the Vitae Patrum, but also made use of the Legenda Aurea. Like its source material, it mainly covers the lives of the Desert...
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    original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018. "Saint Roch", The Met Legenda Aurea, William Caxton's translation, 1483. "There is little concern for mapping...
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    Legend. Archived from the original on 2010-03-30. "Of Mary Magdalene", Legenda Aurea, Book IV. Butler, Alban; Paul Burns (2000). Butler's lives of the saints...
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    forty-six in all. —Les Petits Bollandistes, vol. ii. pp. 510, 511. Legenda Aurea, "Saint Valentine" Archived September 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine...
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