✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: July 15

St. Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure

Bishop & Doctor of the Church · 1221–1274

Patron of Theologians

Franciscan master general and cardinal called the 'Seraphic Doctor,' who matched Aquinas in brilliance while governing a sprawling order.

When papal envoys brought his cardinal's hat, they found him washing dishes. He asked them to hang it on a tree until he finished.

Image: Claude François (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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