The Golden Legend (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Golden Legend The Golden Legend was first published in 1851. The title was derived from the epithet given to Vora gine's Legends of the Saints, Aurea Legenda, which was said by its admirers to exceed all other books, as gold passeth in value all other metals. So the story upon which this poem is founded seems to me, says Longfellow, in his original note, to surpass all other legends in beauty and significance. It exhibits amid the corruptions of the Middle Ages, the Virtue of disinter estedness and self-sacrifice, and the power of Faith, Hope, and Charity, sufficient for all the exigencies of life and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.