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Bonaventure, OFM was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" . His feast day is 15 July. Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure. Wikipedia  

✵ 1221 – 15. July 1274   •   Other names San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio
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“Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared.”

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