Legenda sanctorum

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Legenda sanctorum, better known in English as The Golden Legend, is a widely read medieval collection of hagiographies compiled by Jacobus de Voragine that recounts the lives and miracles of Christian saints.

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The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian religious text
hagiographic collection
medieval literary work
alsoKnownAs Aurea Legenda NERFINISHED
Golden Legend NERFINISHED
associatedWithOrder Dominican Order NERFINISHED
author Jacobus de Voragine NERFINISHED
circulation manuscript tradition
compiledBy Jacobus de Voragine NERFINISHED
compilerBirthplace Genoa NERFINISHED
compilerName Jacobus de Voragine NERFINISHED
compilerOccupation archbishop of Genoa
contains legends of apostles
legends of confessors
legends of martyrs
legends of virgins
countryOfOrigin Italy
describes lives of saints
miracles of saints
era 13th century
focusesOn Christian saints
genre hagiography
saints' lives
hasEnglishTitle The Golden Legend NERFINISHED
hasLatinTitle Legenda sanctorum NERFINISHED
hasNotableCompiler Jacobus de Voragine NERFINISHED
historicalReception popular among clergy
popular among laypeople
widely read in the Middle Ages
influenced Christian iconography
later hagiographic literature
medieval preaching
intendedAudience devout laity
preachers
language Latin
laterFormat early printed book
literaryForm prose
literaryTradition Latin hagiographical tradition
religion Christianity
structure collection of individual legends
subjectMatter Christian liturgical year
saints' feast days
theologicalOrientation Catholic
timePeriod Middle Ages
usedFor devotional reading
liturgical calendar reference
sermon preparation

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The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine alternativeTitle Legenda sanctorum
subject surface form: The Golden Legend
Three Tales containsWork Legenda sanctorum
this entity surface form: The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller