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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Butler’s Lives of the Saints” on \nST BONAVENTURE \n◊◊◊ \nThis greatest successor of St Francis of Assisi…was born at Bagnorea\, near \nViterbo\, in the year 1221… He was clothed in the order of Friars Minor and \nstudied at the University of Paris under Alexander of Hales… Bonaventure\, who \nwas to become known as the Seraphic Doctor\, taught theology and Holy \nScripture at the University from 1248 to 1257. \nHe was called by his priestly obligation to labor for the salvation of his \nneighbor\, and to this he devoted himself with enthusiasm. He preached to the \npeople with an energy which kindled a flame in the hearts of those that heard \nhim. While at the University of Paris he produced one of the best-known of his \nwritten works\, the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard\, which \ncovers the whole field of scholastic theology. The years of his public lecturing at \nParis were greatly disturbed\, however\, by the attack made on the mendicant \nfriars by the other professors at the university. Jealousy of their pastoral and \nacademic success and the standing reproof to worldliness and ease of the friars’ \nlives were in part behind this attempt to get them excluded from the schools. \nThe leader of the secular party was William of Saint-Amour\, who made a \nbitter onslaught on the mendicants in a book called The Perils of the Last Times. \nBonaventure\, who had to suspend lecturing for a time\, replied in a treatise on \nevangelical poverty\, named Concerning the Poverty of Christ. Pope Alexander \nIV appointed a commission of cardinals to go into the matter at Anagni\, and on \ntheir findings ordered Saint-Amour’s book to be burnt\, vindicated and \nreinstated the friars\, and ordered the offenders to withdraw their attack. A year \nlater\, in 1257\, St Bonaventure and St Thomas Aquinas received the degree of \ndoctor of theology together. \nIn 1257 Bonaventure was chosen minister general of the Friars Minor. He \nwas not yet thirty-six years old\, and the order was torn by dissensions\, some of \nthe friars being for an inflexible severity\, others demanding certain mitigation \nof the rule; between the two extremes were a number of other interpretations. \nSome of the extreme rigorists\, called Spirituals\, had even fallen into error and \ndisobedience\, and thus given a handle to the friars’ opponents in the Paris \ndispute. Bonaventure wrote a letter to his provincials in which he made it clear \nthat he required a disciplined observance of the rule\, involving a reformation of \nthe relaxed\, but giving no countenance to the excesses of the Spirituals. \nAt Narbonne in 1260\, the first of the five general chapters which \nBonaventure held\, he produced a set of constitutions on the rule\, which were \nadopted and had a permanent effect on Franciscan life\, but they failed to pacify \nthe excessive rigorists. At the request of the friars assembled in this chapter\, he \nundertook to write the life of St Francis\, with a spirit which shows him to have \nbeen filled with the virtues of the founder whose life he wrote. St Bonaventure \ngoverned his order for seventeen years and has been justly called its second \nfounder.
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