"buenaventura" in English

Bonaventure pointed out this living ideal to all of Francis’ followers.

Today I would like to speak about St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio.

In the port of Buenaventura, 20 peasant-farmers were murdered.

In 1273 St. Bonaventure’s life met with another change.

Therefore, around the year 1243 John put on the Franciscan coarse woolen cloth and took the name Bonaventure.

What is the image of St. Francis that arises from the heart and pen of his devoted son and successor, St. Bonaventure?

The last meeting was with a handful of Philosophy and Theology students of the Convent of St. Bonaventure in Maputo.

Jose explained briefly the figure of Blessed Bonaventure and spoke of the importance of “Retreats” in the history of the Order.

St. Bonaventure (original in italian)

For this reason, information is gathered from other Research Centers of the Order (Scotistic Commission, the College of St. Bonaventure-St.

The meeting at the University concluded with a musical evening and dinner offered by the Franciscan Fraternity of St. Bonaventure in-charge of the university.

Thus St. Bonaventure formulates explicitly the idea of progress, and this is a novelty in comparison with the Fathers of the Church and a great part of his contemporaries.

In the afternoon, we had a cultural tour by visiting the University of Saint Bonaventure at the headquarters in Bogota (University of the Province of Santa Fe of Colombia).

Matthias Kule who is a formator of the friars studying philosophy in St. Bonaventure College Lusaka (Zambia) on Franciscan formation and evangelical counsels.

For St. Bonaventure, Christ is no longer, as he was for the Fathers of the Church, the end, but the center of history; history does not end with Christ, but a new period begins.

Anthony set the foundations of Franciscan theology that, cultivated by other famous figures of thinkers, came to its zenith with St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Blessed Duns Scotus.