The Golden Legend Selections [Paperback]

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages,The Golden Legenddeeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1229-98) attracted a huge audience across Europe. This selection of over seventy biographies ranges from the first Apostles and Roman martyrs to near-contemporaries such as St Dominic, St Francis of Assissi and St Elizabeth of Hungary. Here, witnesses to the true faith endure horrific tortures; reformed prostitutes win divine forgiveness; while other women live disguised as monks or nobly resist lustful tyrants. Lucid and compelling,The Golden Legendoffers an enthralling insight into the medieval mind.

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1. St. Andrew, Apostle: 30 November
2. St. Nicholas, 6 December
3. St. Ambrose, 7 December
4. St. Lucy, Virgin, 13 December
5. St. Thomas, Apostle, 21 December
6. St. Anastasia, 25 December
7. St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, 27 December
8. St. Thomas of Canterbury, 29 December
9. St. Hilary, 13 January
10. St. Anthony, Abbot, 17 January
11. St. Sebastian, 20 January
12. St. Agnes, Virgin, 21 January
13. St. Vincent, 22 January
14. St. John the Almsgiver, 23 January
15. St. Ignatius, 1 February
16. St. Blaise, 3 February
17. St. Agatha, Virgin, 3 February
18. St. Amand, 6 February
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