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A statue of St. Bonaventure is shown during a candlelight procession on July 14, 2023, in Bagnoregio, Italy, his birthplace, on the vigil of the saint's feast day. Patrick Leonard/CNA ...

St. Bonaventure also wrote numerous mystical and ascetical treatises, most famously, “The Soul's Journey into God.” In 1273, he was appointed by Pope Gregory X as Cardinal and Bishop of Albano.

Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Bonaventure, the great Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church.

During those years in Paris, Bonaventure’s adopted city, a violent controversy erupted against St. Francis of Assisi’s Friars Minor and St. Dominic Guzman’s Friars Preacher.