Golden Legend
There is a book intended to be a sequel of the New Testament, since its volume is almost equal to the sum of volumes of the New Testament and the Old Testament.
The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda aurea or Legenda sanctorum) is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.[1] It was likely compiled around the year 1260, although the text was added to over the centuries.
Among incunabula, printed before 1501, Legenda aurea was printed in more editions than the Bible.[4] It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language; Caxton's version appeared in 1483 and his translation was reprinted, reaching a ninth edition in 1527.
(An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside (such as the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474) that was printed—not handwritten—before the year 1501 in Europe.)
Written in simple, readable Latin, the book was read in its day for its stories. Each of these is well told, but en masse they tend to become monotonous and blur together, with their repetitious accounts of martyrdoms and miracles. The book is considered the closest to an encyclopaedia of medieval saint lore that survives today; as such it is invaluable to art historians and medievalists who seek to identify saints depicted in art by their deeds and attributes. Its repetitious nature is explained if Jacobus de Voragine meant to write a compendium of saintly lore for sermons and preaching, not a work of popular entertainment.In this book more than 100 saints appear to save people and perform miracles. But, some say that the only saint who heard a voice of God and ventured into salvation of mankind believing mercy of God before 1300 is Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – 1226), an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. Even Jacobus de Voragine might have been influenced by deeds of St. Francis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legend
He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis for men and women not able to live the lives of itinerant preachers, followed by the early members of the Order of Friars Minor or the monastic lives of the Poor Clares.[1] Though he was never ordained to the Catholic priesthood, Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.
On 13 March 2013, upon his election as Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, becoming Pope Francis.So, the incumbent Pope seems to be linked with the era of Columbus, since among incunabula, printed before 1501, Legenda aurea was printed in more editions than the Bible and the Golden Legend with full of miracles was written immediately after the death of St. Francis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#Reorganization_of_the_Franciscan_Order_and_death
Pope Francis had better make an effort to make the world of today a world with faith and miracles, as depicted in the Golden Legend, so that everybody can realize the Second Coming of Christ Jesus.
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Mar 5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Mar 5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.