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SUMMARY:Vigils: St. Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFE OF ST BONAVENTURE\nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints 2\n◊◊◊\nOf the youth of this greatest successor of St Francis of Assisi nothing is\nknown beyond the facts that he was born at Bagnoregio\, near Viterbo\, in the\nyear 1221\, the son of John Fidanza and Mary Ritella. He was clothed in the order\nof Friars Minor and studies at the University of Paris under an Englishman\,\nAlexander of Hales\, ‘the Unanswerable Doctor’; Bonaventure\, who was to\nbecome known as the Seraphic Doctor\, himself taught theology and Holy\nScripture there from 1248 to 1257. \nBonaventure was called by his priestly obligation to labor for the salvation\nof his neighbor\, and to this he devoted himself with enthusiasm. He preached\nto the people with an energy which kindled a flame in the hearts of those that\nheard him. While at the University of Paris he produced one of the best-known\nof his written works\, the “Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard”\,\nwhich covers the whole field of scholastic theology. The years of his public\nlecturing at Paris were greatly disturbed\, however\, by the attack made on the\nmendicant friars by the other professors at the university. Jealousy of their\npastoral and academic success and the standing reproof to worldliness and ease\nof the friars’ lives were in part behind this attempt to get them excluded from\nthe schools. The leader of the secular party was William of Saint-Amour\, who\nmade a bitter onslaught on the mendicants in a book called “The Perils of the\nLast Times”\, and other writings. \nBonaventure\, who had to suspend lecturing for a time\, replied in a treatise\non evangelical poverty\, named “Concerning the Poverty of Christ”. The pope\,\nAlexander IV\, appointed a commission of cardinals to go into the matter at\nAnagni\, and on their findings ordered Saint-Amour’s book to be burnt\,\nvindicated and reinstated the friars\, and ordered the offenders to withdraw\ntheir attack. A year later\, in 1257\, St Bonaventure and St Thomas Aquinas\nreceived the degree of doctor 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. The new minister general wrote a letter to his provincials in which he\nmade it clear that he required a disciplined observance of the rule\, involving a\nreformation of the relaxed\, but giving no countenance to the excesses of the\nSpirituals. \nAt Narbonne in 1260\, the first of the five general chapters which he held\,\nhe produced a set of constitutions on the rule\, which were adopted and had a\npermanent effect on Franciscan life\, but they failed to pacify the excessive\nrigorists. At the request of the friars assembled in this chapter\, he undertook to\nwrite the life of St Francis\, which he compiled with a spirit which shows him to\nhave been filled with the virtues of the founder whose life he wrote. He governed\nhis order for seventeen years and has been justly called its second founder. \n2 BUTLER’S LIVES OF THE SAINTS\, Concise Edition edited by M. Walsh (Harper San Francisco\, 1991) pp. 216-\n217.
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