Bonaventure
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He served as the seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor and was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV.[1]
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Life and work
He was elected Minister General of the Franciscan Order after successfully defending his order against the anti-mendicant party.[2] Bonaventure was instrumental in procuring the election of Pope Gregory X, who made him Cardinal Bishop of Albano.[3] He died suddenly at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274 after contributing to a union of Greek and Latin churches.[3] The only details surviving about his early years are that his father was Giovanni di Fidanza and his mother was Maria di Ritella.[4]
In 1243 he joined the Franciscan Order and pursued studies at the University of Paris, where his teachers may have included Alexander of Hales.[3] His theological approach sought to fully unite faith with reason.[5]
What the cited sources add
The General Chapter of 1260 at Narbonne, where Bonaventure presided, ratified his codification of Franciscan legal statutes known as the "Constitutions of Narbonne"[6] The same chapter asked him to write a definitive Life of St. Francis, which he completed in 1261.[6] In 1266, without prior notice, that restriction was lifted specifically for Roger Bacon.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Bonaventure" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Magnum bullarium romanum, Volume 1", 1655, p. 437-439 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bonaventure" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Handbook of British Chronology", Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 282 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bonaventure" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adamson, Robert (1911). "Bonaventura, Saint". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 4. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 197-198. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bonaventure" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Robinson, Paschal (1907). "St. Bonaventure". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.; Hammond, "New Catholic Encyclopedia", Thomson/Gale in association with the Catholic University of America, 2003, p. 479; Bonaventure, "The Life of Saint Francis", J. M. Dent and Co., 1904, p. prol. 3 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bonaventure" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Noone, "Saint Bonaventure", plato.stanford.edu, 2010 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Noone, "Saint Bonaventure", plato.stanford.edu, 2010. facts only, no text reused. plato.stanford.edu
- Witzel, "Roger Bacon", Robert Appleton Company, 1912. facts only, no text reused. newadvent.org
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