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Excerpt from The History of St. Catherine of Siena and Her Companions, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Translation of Her Teatise on Consummate Perfection
Continuing her journey, then, along this road (in the course of which one of her companions treacherously abandoned her, taking with him the money which she had given him for their expenses), she arrived on the 3rd of October at Voragine or Varene, a town on the sea-coast, not far from Genoa. L)e scried through groves of oranges and palm-trees, says a recent writer, may still be seen the tower of the church where was probably baptized the Blessed James of Voragine, of the Order of Preachers, who in his day was Archbishop of Genoa, and author of that celebrated collection Of Saints' Lives, known as the Golden Legend. Catherine naturally felt an interest in a spot connected with that holy man, with whose book she was perfectly well acquainted. In fact, the Golden Legend was the most popular book of spiritual reading in the Middle Ages, and St. Catherine makes allusions to it in several of her letters. This visit to Voragine is not mentioned by Raymund in his Legend, although it was accompanied by some sufficiently re markable circumstances. Bartholomew Dominic, however, speaks of it in his deposition; and certain notes regarding it have been preserved in manuscript in the Communal Library at Siena, from an authentic copy of which I will proceed to restore this missing page of St. Catherine's history.
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