biography
| name: |
Voragine, Jacobus de
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pronunciation:
[vorajinay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1230–1298)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and hagiologist, born in Viareggio, W Italy. He became a Dominican (1244), gained a reputation as a preacher and theologian, and became Archbishop of Genoa in 1292. He wrote the Golden Legend, a famous collection of lives of the saints, translated by Caxton in 1483, and is also said to have produced the first Italian translation of the Bible. |
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