The golden legend of Jacobus de Voragine

Orig. pub. by Longman,s Green & Co., Inc. Transl. and adapted from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger.

'...in essence the Golden Legend "is the explanation of the offices celebrated in the ecclesiastical year. Since the feasts of the saints occur in greater number than the other solemnities of the Church, the lives of the saints occupy the greater part of the book.' The Legenda was therefore compiled as a sort of layman's lectionary. This intention of the author is clear from the plan of the book. He divides the year into four parts, corresponding to the four phases of the spiritual history of mankind....'

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