Bonaventure
(1221-1274)
Italian theologian
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Saint Bonaventure ( BON-ə-ven-chər, -VEN-; Italian: Bonaventura 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonised 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" (Latin: Doctor Seraphicus). Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure.
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1221 Bagnoregio, Province of Viterbo, Latium, Papal States
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15 July 1274 (aged 53) Lyon, Lyonnais, Kingdom of Arles
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