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Contemplation deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our hearts, and the better we learn to encounter God in creatures outside ou… - Bonaventure
" "Contemplation deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our hearts, and the better we learn to encounter God in creatures outside ourselves.
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About Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure (b.1221, d.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". Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure.
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Bonaventura
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Giovanni di Fidanza
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Giovanni Fidanza
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Saint Bonaventure
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Saint Bonaventura
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Saint Bonaventure O.F.M.
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Seraphic Doctor
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St. Bonaventura
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shën Bonaventura da Bagnoregio
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