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Legendary material in Christian hagiography
A ''legendary'' is in Christian literature a collection of biographies of saints or other holy figures. The pre-eminent example of the form is the mid-thirteenth-century ''Legenda aurea'' or 'Golden Legend', which contained a large number of saints' lives, organised according to the liturgical year. The genre fell into decline following the Reformation.
==Terminology==
The ''legenda'' (literally, that which is for reading) included facts which were historically genuine, as well as narrative which Christians now class as unhistorical legend. The term is a creation of the Middle Ages, and has its source in the reading of the prayers used in religious services. Since the days of the martyrs, the Catholic Church recalled to mind her famous dead in the prayers of the Mass and in the Office, by commemorating the names noted in the martyrologies and making mention of incidents in their lives and martyrdom. When the ''lectio'' became a matter of precept, the reading matter in the office for the day became in a precise sense ''legenda'' (that which must be read).
After the 13th century, the word legenda was regarded as the equivalent of ''vita'' (''Life'') and ''passio'' (suffering), and, in the 15th century, the ''liber lectionarius'' is comprised under what is known as "legend". Thus, historically considered, legend is the received story of the saints.
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