St. Bonaventura,
Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, Minister General of the
Friars Minor, born at Bagnorea in the vicinity of Viterbo in 1221; died
at Lyons, 16 July, 1274. No details of Bonaventure's youth have been preserved.
He entered the Order of Friars Minor in 1238 or 1243, and was sent from
the Roman Province, to which he belonged, to complete his studies at the
University of Paris under Alexander of Hales, the great founder of the
Franciscan School. The degree of Doctor was solemnly bestowed on St. Bonaventura
and St. Thomas Aquinas at the university, 23 October, 1267. In the meantime
Bonaventura on 2 February, 1257 was elected Minister General of the Friars
Minor. The Franciscan Order has ever regarded Bonaventura as one of the
greatest Doctors and from the beginning his teaching found many distinguished
expositors within the order, among the earliest being his own pupils, John
Peckham later Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew of Aquasparta, and Alexander
of Alexandria (d. 1314), both of whom became ministers general of the order.
Unfortunately not all of Bonaventure's writings have come down to us. Some
were lost before the invention of printing.
See: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo St.
Leander and St. Bonaventura.
Francisco de Zurbarán The
Death of St. Bonaventura,
St.
Bonaventura at Pray,
St.
Bonaventura at the Council of Lyons.
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