"Святые жены" - вторая часть книги "Золотая легенда", написанной в XIII веке итальянским монахом-доминиканцем. Труд Иакова Ворагинского был широко известен в Средневековье и оказал значительное влияние на европейское искусство и культуру. На русском языке публикуется впервые.
Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of Legenda Sanctorum, also known as the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.