. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. I-FGENDg OF THE MONASTIC St. Bonaventura. The Seraphic Doctor. Cardinal, and Bishop of Albano. Jnly 14, 1274. Cardinal Bonaventura, styled the Seraphic Doctor, was notonly the pride and boast of the Seraphic Order, but is re-garded as one of the great luminaries of the Roman CatholicChurch. He was born at Bagnarea in Tuscany, in the year1221, and baptized by the name of Giovanni Fidanga. Inhis infancy he had a dangerous illness, in which his life wasdespaired of. His mother, in the extremity of her grief,laid her chil
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. I-FGENDg OF THE MONASTIC St. Bonaventura. The Seraphic Doctor. Cardinal, and Bishop of Albano. Jnly 14, 1274. Cardinal Bonaventura, styled the Seraphic Doctor, was notonly the pride and boast of the Seraphic Order, but is re-garded as one of the great luminaries of the Roman CatholicChurch. He was born at Bagnarea in Tuscany, in the year1221, and baptized by the name of Giovanni Fidanga. Inhis infancy he had a dangerous illness, in which his life wasdespaired of. His mother, in the extremity of her grief,laid her child at the feet of St. Francis, beseeching him tointercede with his prayers for the life of her son: the childrecovered. It is related, that when St. Francis saw him heexclaimed, 1 0 buona ventura! and hence the mother, in atransport of gratitude, dedicated her child to G-od by thename of Bonaventura. She brought him up in sentimentsof enthusiastic piety; and while he surprised his masters bythe progress he made in his studies, she taught him that allhis powers, all his acquirements, and all his fa
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