THE GOLDEN LEGEND

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read b ook, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later a rchbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Gran ger Ryan ...[Read more]