Such Is the Power of Love: Saint Francis as Seen by Bonaventure

by Bonaventure

Publisher:

New City Press

, 2007

Overview

Taken from the acclaimed and best-selling Francis of Assisi: Early Documents set, this collection contains Saint Bonaventure’s Major and Minor Legends of Saint Francis as well as his Sermons about Saint Francis.

Product Details

• Title: Such Is the Power of Love: Saint Francis as Seen by Bonaventure
• Author: Bonaventure
• Publisher: New City Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 283
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274. Legenda major S. Francisci; Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274 Legenda minor S. Francisci; Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 › Legends; Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 › Sermons; Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274
• ISBNs: 9781565482579, 1565482573
• Resource ID: LLS:SCHSPWRSNBNVNTR
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-19T22:36:40Z

About Bonaventure

Bonaventure, born Giovanni di Fidanza (1221–1274) born John of Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the “Seraphic Doctor”. Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventura. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.