Bonaventure
Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Catholic saint · Italy · Academics · Lived 1221 to 1274 · aged 53
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Something wrong?A medieval Franciscan who climbed from friar to cardinal, then centuries later was declared a Doctor of the Church - though not everything bearing his name was actually his.
A life in dates
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Bonaventura da Bagnoregio - Meditationes vitae Christi (italiano), 1480 - BEIC IE5671353
Bonaventura, 1221-1274 Quaestiones in libris III et IV Sententiarum Friburgo Kilinus Piscator, 1493%2C_forse_edizione_scritta_a_tongeren%2C_1290_ca._(l'aia%2C_koninkijke_bibliotheek).jpg?width=1200)
Bonaventura, vita beati francisci abbreviata (legenda minor), forse edizione scritta a tongeren, 1290 ca. (l'aia, koninkijke bibliotheek)
Bosco ai frati, convento, cella di san bonaventura, oggi cappella, 01
Bosco ai frati, convento, cella di san bonaventura, oggi cappella, 02
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Bosco ai frati, convento, cella di san bonaventura, oggi cappella, 04In their own words 8
, The virtue of gratitude is extremely commendable and pleasing in the sight of God, as its opposite is a detestable vice before him. Of which subject, thus speaks St.
For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is illuminated, and therefore the more clearly does he see the majesty and mercy of God.
...Though His Passion sufficed for all, yet all would not profit from it, for some would be reprobate, hard-hearted, and impenitent.
About this person
Giovanni di Fidanza was born in Italy in 1221 and joined the Franciscans, eventually becoming the order's seventh Minister General. He served as Bishop of Albano and was later made a cardinal, working as both a scholastic theologian and philosopher. He died on 15 July 1274. More than two centuries later, in 1482, Pope Sixtus IV canonised him. In 1588 another pope gave him the title "Seraphic Doctor," marking him as one of the Church's official theological authorities. A complication followed: many medieval texts long credited to him were later determined to be the work of others, now grouped under "Pseudo-Bonaventure."
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