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The Golden Legend, Vol. 3 The Golden Legend, vol. 3 Author(s): Voragine, Jacobus de (1230-1298) Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Description: The Golden Legend, an extensive collection of saints' bio- graphies, became one of the best-selling books of the late medieval period. By the 15th century, editions of Voragine's Golden Legend were available in every major European language. This seven-volume edition, published in 1900, is F. S. Ellis' modern update of a 1483 Middle English transla- tion. The third volume contains brief biographies of St. Valentine, St. Patrick, and St. Ambrose among more than fifty others. Kathleen O'Bannon CCEL Staff Subjects: Christian Denominations Roman Catholic Church Biography and portraits Collective Saints and martyrs i Contents Title Page 1 The Life of S. Pauline the Widow 2 The Life of S. Julian the Bishop 6 The Life of S. Ignatius 11 The Purification of the Virgin Mary 13 The Life of S. Blase 17 The Life of S. Agatha 20 The Life of S. Amande 24 The Life of S. Vedaste 26 The Life of S. Valentine 27 The Life of S. Valentine the Martyr 28 The Life of S. Juliana 29 The Chairing of S. Peter the Apostle 32 The Life of S. Matthias the Apostle 35 The Life of S. Gregory the Pope 39 The Life of S. Longinus 45 The Life of S. Maur 47 The Life of S. Patrick 49 The Life of S. Benet the Abbot 51 The Life of S. Cuthbert 58 The Feast of the Annunciation 60 The Life of S. Seconde, Knight 63 The Life of Mary of Egypt 65 The Life of S. Ambrose 68 The Lives of SS. Tyburtius and Valerian 74 The Life of S. Alphage 75 ii The Life of S. George 78 The Life of S. Mark the Evangelist 83 The Life of S. Marcelin the Pope 88 The Life of S. Vital 89 The Life of S. Peter of Milan 90 The Life of S. Philip the Apostle 95 The Life of S. James the Less 97 The Invention of the Holy Cross 103 The History of S. John Port Latin 107 The Life of S. Gordian 108 The Lives of SS. Nereus and Achilleus 109 The Life of S. Pancrace 111 The Life of S. Urban 113 The Life of S. Pernelle 115 The Life of S. Dunstan 116 The Life of S. Aldhelm 118 The Life of S. Austin 120 The Life of S. Germain 125 The Life of S. Peter the Exorcist or Deacon 129 The Lives of SS. Prime and Felician 130 The Life of S. Barnabas 132 The Lives of SS. Vitus and Modestus 136 The Lives of SS. Quirine and Juliet 139 The Life of S. Marine 140 The Lives of SS. Gervase and Prothase 142 The Life of S. Edward 145 The Lives of SS. Alban and Amphiabel 147 The Nativity of S. John the Baptist 156 The Life of S. Loye 161 The Life of S. William 164 The Life of S. Eutrope 166 The Life of S. Marcial 170 iii The Life of S. Genevieve 175 GLOSSARY 186 iv This PDF file is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org. The mission of the CCEL is to make classic Christian books available to the world. • This book is available in PDF, HTML, ePub, and other formats. See http://www.ccel.org/ccel/voragine/goldleg3.html. • Discuss this book online at http://www.ccel.org/node/3248. The CCEL makes CDs of classic Christian literature available around the world through the Web and through CDs. We have distributed thousands of such CDs free in developing countries. If you are in a developing country and would like to receive a free CD, please send a request by email to [email protected]. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a self supporting non-profit organization at Calvin College. If you wish to give of your time or money to support the CCEL, please visit http://www.ccel.org/give. This PDF file is copyrighted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. It may be freely copied for non-commercial purposes as long as it is not modified. All other rights are re- served. Written permission is required for commercial use. v Title Page Title Page The GOLDEN LEGEND or LIVES of the SAINTS Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275 First Edition Published 1470 ENGLISHED by WILLIAM CAXTON, First Edition 1483 VOLUME THREE From the Temple Classics Edited by F.S. ELLIS First issue of this Edition, 1900 Reprinted 1922, 1931 1 The Life of S. Pauline the Widow The Life of S. Pauline the Widow Here followeth of S. Pauline the Widow S. Pauline was a much noble widow of Rome, of whom S. Jerome wrote the life, and saith first thus: If all my members were turned into tongues, and all my arteries should re- sound in human voice, yet I might not worthily write the virtues of S. Pauline. I take witness of God and of his holy angels, and also of the angel that was keeper of this woman that I shall say nothing for praising but that same that I shall say shall be less than appertaineth to her virtues. She was born among the nobles of the senators of Rome, and of the lineage of the noble Gregois, rich of good and puissant of seignory at Rome. She was the most humble of all other, for like as the sun surmounteth the clearness of the stars, so surmounted she the beauty of others by her great humility. When her husband was passed out of this world, she abode lady of all the goods and riches. It happed that, at the mandment of the Emperor, many bishops came to Rome, among whom were there the holy man Paulinus, the patriarch of Antioch, and Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, of whom she was esprised in good virtues, so that she gave largely of her goods for God’s sake. Her parents, ne her friends, ne her own children could not turn her, ne make her to change her purpose, but that she would become the pilgrim of Jesu Christ, for the amorous desire that she had to Jesu Christ surmounted the love that she had to her children. Only among all her children she had put her affection in Eustochium her daughter, whom she led with her in this pilgrimage. She took the sea and sailed so far that she came into the holy land of Jerusalem. O how great devotion she had to visit the sepulchre of Jesu Christ and the other holy places, and how all weeping she kissed them, there can no man rehearse. All the city of Jerusalem could speak of it, and yet best of all knew the Lord for whose love she had forsaken all things. She had been at Rome so puissant and so noble, that every man coveted to do to her honour for her great renomee, but she that was founded upon humility sought the humble places and religious, and came at the last to Bethlehem. And when she had devoutly visited the place in which the Virgin Mary infanted and childed Jesu Christ, she fell in a vision, and as she sware to me, she saw in that vision the child wrapped in poor clouts Iying in the crib or in the rack, and how the three kings worshipped him, how the star came upon the house, and how the shepherds came to see him, and how Herod made persecution upon the inno- cents, and how Joseph bare the child into Egypt. And this vision she said, all in weeping and in laughing, and said: I salute thee Bethlehem wherein he is born, that descended from heaven, of thee prophesied Micah the fifth chapter, that of thee should be born the God that should govern the people of Israel, and the lineage of David should endure in thee unto the time that the glorious virgin should enfant Jesu Christ; and I wretched, as unworthy to repute me to kiss the crib in which our Lord wept as a child, and the virgin childed, here I shall take my rest and my dwelling, for my Saviour chose this place in Bethlehem. 2 The Life of S. Pauline the Widow She made there her habitation with many virgins that served God, and how well that she was lady of all, nevertheless she was the most humble and meek in speaking, in habit, and in going, in such wise that she seemed servant of all the other. She never ate after the death of her husband with no man, how good that he was; she visited as it is said tofore, all the holy places and the monks of Egypt, among whom were many of the ancient fathers and many holy men, and her seemed that she saw Jesu Christ among them. And after, she founded in Bethlehem an abbey in which she assembled virgins as well of noble estate as of middle and low lineage, and departed them in three congregations, so that they were departed in work, in meat, and drink, but in saying their psalter and adoring were they together at the hours as it appertaineth. And she induced and informed all the other in prayer and in work, by example giving, she was never idle. And all they were of one habit, and they had ne sheets ne linen cloth but to dry their hands, and they might have no licence to speak to men, and they that came late to the hours, she blamed debonairly or shortly, after that they were, and suffered not that any of them should have anything save the living and clothing, for to put away avarice from them.
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