Golden Legend
Golden Legend
A collection of biographies of saints and legends, including the apocryphal literature, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, Pseudo-Matthew, and the Protoevangelium of James, written c.1260 by Jacopo de Voragine, and printed hy Caxton, 1483. Its success was prodigious and it was translated into all the vernaculars of Europe. Longfellow’s “Golden Legend” shows its influence.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Golden Legend
(Lat. Aurea Legenda), a collection of legendary accounts of saints, long very popular, in almost all the European languages. It was compiled by a Dominican, James de Voragine, also written Vragine and Varagine, about A.D. 1230. It has 177 sections, each giving an account of a. particular saint or festival. It is of no historical value.