The Golden Legend

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Summary: The secondmost read book in Christendom
Review: The Blessed Jacobus's compilation of the miraculous, "Golden Legend" carries you along as it brings you through the image-filled lives of the saints. Crowded, in a most woundrous fashion, with miracles, long martyrdoms, impossible but believable feats, quotable lines, long explanations of extreme intricacy, intriguing dialogue and a most enjoyable theme, it is enjoyable for those who read page after page and enjoy the long story, ending in triumph. It can also be accessible to those who enjoy anecdotes, except here they are pious. They begin the same way, usually--"A friar minor..." or such. It's hard to stop paging through it

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Summary: 1/2 of a two volume set
Review: This book is 1/2 of a two volume set, which contains pious but not allways accurate lives of Saints. This is more a guide to what people believed then to what the saints actually did.