Domus Aurea | Ficus aurea | Saint Aurea | Rayjacksonia aurea | Lei Áurea | Grevillea aurea | Aurea (Oria) | Tabebuia aurea | Saint Aurea (disambiguation) | Pages from the 1656 translation of ''Aurea Themis'' of Michael Maier | alt=Cattleya dowiana aurea, from ''Reichenbachia'' Series I Volume I Plate 5 . |
This compilation purports to have been translated from Hebrew into Greek by "Eutropius", a disciple of Abdias, and, in the third century, from Greek into Latin by Julius Africanus, the friend of Origen, or as reported in Legenda Aurea by his disciple Tropaeus Africanus.
These works would often be based upon the international best-seller Golden Legend (Legenda aurea), but also included biographies of many local Swedish saints.
His early history, as given in the Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), links him with Arles, but finally he withdrew deep into the forest near Nîmes, where in the greatest solitude he spent many years, his sole companion being a deer, or red deer, who in some stories sustained him on her milk.