Biography

Innate at a little village of Varazze, Liguria, touching Genoa. He entered a Dominican order in 1244, and besides preaching successfully inside numbers of area of Italy, taught in the schools of his have fraternity. He was provincial of Lombardy from 1267 till 1286, when he was flushed at a meeting of the choose inside Paris. He as well represented his have province at a councils of Lucca (1288) and Ferrara (1290). On a previous occasion he was one of the quadruplet delegates charged by using signifying Nicholas IV's desire for the deposition of Munio de Zamora, who got been master of the sequentially from either 1285, and was deprived of his professional by the papal bull dated April 12, 1291.

Around 1288 Nicholas empowered him to absolve a humans of Genoa for their offence around aiding the Sicilians against Charles II. Early inside 1292 the same pope, himself the Franciscan, summoned Jacobus to Rome, intending to consecrate him archbishop of Genoa with his have mitts. He reached Rome in Palm Sunday (March 30), only to buy his patrin sick of the fatal infection, from either which he died on Skillful Friday (April 4). A cardinals, even so, propter honorem Communis Januae ("for the honor of the commune of Genoa"), determined to carry out this consecration on the Sunday fallowing Easter. He was a good bishop, & especially distinguished himself by his efforts to appease a civil discords of Genoa among Guelfs and Ghibellines. The story, mentioned per chronicler Eckard as unworthy of credit, makes Pope Boniface VIII, on a first day of Lent, cast the ashes in the archbishop's eyes instead of in his head, using a words, "Remember that thou art a Ghibelline, and with thy fellow Ghibellines wilt return to naught."

He died inside 1298 or 1299, and was buried in the Dominican church at Genoa. He was beatified by Pius VII in 1816.

Works

Jacobus diamond state Voragine left the names of his have works. Speaking of himself inside his Chronicon januense, he says, "While he was in his order, and after he had been made archbishop, he wrote many works. For he compiled the legends of the saints (Legendae sanctorum) in one volume, adding many things from the Historia tripartita et scholastica, and from the chronicles of many writers."

A more writings he claims come 2 anon. volumes of Sermons on all the Saints whose annually feasts a church celebrates. 1 volumes, he adds, one is very soft, however a more short & concise. So watch Sermones diamond state omnibus evangeliis dominicalibus or even each Sunday in the season; Sermones delaware omnibus evangeliis, i.e the book of discourses in all the Gospels, from either Ash Wednesday to the Tuesday fallowing Easter; & the treatise known as Marialis, qui totus eastern standard time delaware B. Maria compositus, consisting of astir 160 discourses on the attributes, titles, &c., of the Virgin Mary. In a equivalent function the archbishop claims to use written his Chronicon januense in the 2nd month of his pontificate (1293), but it reach 1296 or 1297.

To this names Echard adds many more works, like the defence of the Dominicans, printed at Venice in 1504, and the Summthe virtutum et vitiorum Guillelmi Peraldi, a Dominican world health organization died astir 1250. Jacobus is as well said by Sixtus of Siena (Biblioth. Sacra, lib. nine.) to keep around translated a Old and New Testaments into his own tongue. "But," adds Echard, "if he did so, the version lies so closely hid that there is no recollection of it," & it can be added that these are extremely unlikely that a human world health organization compiled a Golden Legend ever conceived a necessity of getting a Scriptures in the vernacular.

His deuce main works come a Chronicon januense ("Chronicle of Genoa") & a Golden Legend or Historia Lombardica.

A previous is partially printed within Muratori (Scriptores Rer. Hal. nine. Sextuplet). These are divided into 12 area. A foremost 4 treat using a mythologic history of Genoa from either a period of its founder, Janus, called a number one king of Italy, & its enlarger, another Janus "citizen of Troy", till its conversion to Christianity "about twenty-five years after the passion of Christ." Part v. professes to address of a beginning, a incubation & a perfection of the city; however of the number 1 cycle the writer honestly confesses he uneducated person except by rumor. A 2nd time includes a Genoese crusading deed in a East, & extends to their triumph on top the Pisans (c. 1130), while a third reaches down to tha creator's times when Archbishop. A sixth a share deals by having a constitution of a city, the seventh & eighth using the duties of rulers and citizens, the ninth by using people of household life. A tenth gives a ecclesiastic history of Genoa from either a instance of its foremost known bishop, Saint Valentine, " whom we believe to have lived about 530 A.D., " till 1133, when the city was raised to archiepiscopal rank. A eleventh contains a populates of all a bishops sequentially, & includes a principal cases when you took their papacy; a 12th deals in a equivalent way sustaining the archbishops, non forgetting the writer himself.

A Golden Legend, one of a virtually all popular religious works of the Middle Ages, is a collection of the legendary populates of the greater saints of the medieval church. A foreword divides a ecclesiastic month into quatern periods corresponding to the various epochs of the world's history, a instance of deviation, of renovation, of reconciliation & of pilgrim's journey. A book itself, notwithstanding, lessens into 5 sections: —(the) from either Advent to Christmas (cc. One—Five); (b) from either either Christmas to Septuagesima (6-30); (e) from Septuagesima to Easter (31-53); (d) from Easter Day to the octave of Pentecost (54-76); (e) from a octaye of Pentecost to Advent (77-180). A saints' inhabits come good of adolescent legend, and inside non two or three events contain accounts of 13th century miracles wrought at special wharehouses, particularly by using information to the Dominicans. A survive chapter however of these (181), "De Sancto Pelagio Papa," contains a kinda history of the globe from either the middle of the 6th century; while a endure (182) occurs as somewhat allegoric disquisition, " De Dedicatione Ecclesiae."

A Golden Legend was translated into French by Jean Belet de Vigny in the 14th century. It was besides one of a earliest books to issue from either a press. The Latin edition is assigned to about 1469; and the dated 1 was published at Lyon in 1473. Numbers of more Latin editions were printed prior to a prevent of the century. The French translation by Master John Bataillier is dated 1476; Jean de Vigny's appeared at Paris, 1488; an Italian one by Nic. Manerbi (? Venice, H75); the Czech one at Pilsen, 1475-1479, and at Prague, 1495; Caxton's English versions, 1483, 1487 and 1493; and the German one in 1489. Many 15th century editions of a Sermons are too known, & the Mariale was printed at Venice within 1497 and at Paris in 1503. Altogether, when you took a foremost 5 decades of printing inside Europe, editions of the Legenda Aurea appeared two or three a year.

Just about when popular were Jacobus' gathered sermons, too termed "Aurea."