JACOBUS VORAGINE - Golden Legend From the Big Book List, I drew Jacobus Voragine’s Golden Legend which is the 13th century French collection of the hagiography of the early church. I have to be transparent here and say that I have study Christian theology in a mainline Protestant seminary, and I was wholly unaware of much of the work in this text. Hagiography – noun – the writing of the lives of saints. Here is what is weird about the word hagiography. It seems in modern parlance it means something that is obviously false and fantastic but sort of benign and whimsical in a way that is nonthreatening. I could be wrong here, but my first experience with hagiography was in my undergraduate days when I came across the story of the life of Brandon which is a magical tale of the first Europeans to make landfall on the North American continent. Brandon’s life is not recorded here in the Golden Legend version from Penguin I read for reasons I don’t understand. It is not in the e
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