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Friends of the Rosary,
Today, July 15, is the Memorial Day of Saint and mystic Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1221-1274), a thirteenth-century Italian saint, known as the Seraphic Doctor.
As the General of the Franciscan Order, he consolidated the institution and was even considered a second founder.
Teacher and preacher, he was a unique personality, beloved by God and men alike, who attracted everyone who saw him.
Unsurpassed in sanctity, wisdom, and eloquence, he was gifted, as with a skill of accomplishing things. St. Bonaventure had not only a winning disposition, but a heart full of love, pious, charitable, and rich in virtue and wisdom.
His contemporaries are said to have believed that no one was “more handsome, more holy, or more learned” than he.
In philosophy, he was the principal leader of the Platonic-Augustinian school of Franciscan thought; as such, he stood opposed to the Aristotelianism that was making its way into the schools of the time (represented by Thomas Aquinas).
Bonaventure’s Life of St. Francis was a favorite book of the Middle Ages.
Dante had already included him among the inhabitants of his “Paradise.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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