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Jocobus de Voragine. The Golden Legend; or Lives of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. London, J. M. Dent and Co., 1900. 7 v.
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Voragine was the archbishop of Geneva, renowned for his holiness and love for the poor, who wrote perhaps the most famous book of the Middle Ages, the Legenda aurea, or as he entitled it, the Legenda sanetorum. It is a collection of the lives of the saints based on legends and folklore of the people of his times. It is an excellent example of the type of literature the Bollandists were trying to identify and discredit as legend. The full Latin text was last printed in Leipzig (Graesse) in 1850.

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