>Today 13 July is the feast of ...
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>James of Voragine, archbishop of Genoa (1298): Author of the *Legenda
>Aurea*, the best legends of saints ever.
Well, yes and no. . . He may have *retold* the best legends of saints, but
they changed quite a bit (and lost quite a bit of their original meaning and
value) in the process. (I wrote a whole book in support of this thesis
about ten years ago, if anybody's interested in such matters.)
Sherry Reames (Dept. of English, Univ. of Wisconsin)
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