Talk:Jacobus de Voragine

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I realize that this article is certainly cut and pasted from some other source (which)? But the source is hardly NPOV, e.g.:

"The saints' lives are full of puerile legend"

Now, the existence of legendary material is difficult to question, but the "puerility" (sc. "fit only for children") of the legend in question is merely the author's opinion, and probably reflects 19th or early 20th century bias (and perhaps Protestant bias) against imaginative fictions. --Randomcritic

...yes, and it should certainly be noted that the versions in Butler's Lives and on the Internet have been carefully pruned of their zaniest and most grotesque details. --Wetman 06:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


Hi, the real name is "Varagine" (ancient name of the city of Varazze), not "Voragine" (that in Italian means "abyss", "depth" and has nothing to do with Jacopo). So the title should be corrected! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.15.194.68 (talk) 22:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)