Bonaventure

Bonaventure was born Giovanni di Fidanza around 1221 in Bagnoregio, in central Italy. According to a later story, he was cured of a childhood illness through the prayers of Francis of Assisi. He went to study at the University of Paris, joined the Franciscan order, and became a master of theology there, teaching at the same time as Thomas Aquinas. In 1257 he was elected minister general of the Franciscans, which he led for about seventeen years during a period of internal disputes, and he wrote the official life of Saint Francis for the order. In 1259 he visited Mount La Verna, where Francis had received the stigmata, and there wrote The Journey of the Mind into God, a short work describing the soul's ascent to God through the created world, the mind and contemplation. Pope Gregory X made him a cardinal and bishop of Albano in 1273. He died in 1274 during the Second Council of Lyon. He was canonized in 1482 and named a Doctor of the Church.

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Faith: Franciscan friar and theologian who became a bishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy