Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolen… - Bonaventure

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Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared.

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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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Native Name: Bonaventura

Alternative Names: Giovanni di Fidanza • Giovanni Fidanza • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Bonaventura • Saint Bonaventure O.F.M. • Seraphic Doctor • St. Bonaventura • shën Bonaventura da Bagnoregio

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The world is like a book in which the creative Trinity shines, manifests itself in sensible forms and is read.

For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is illuminated, and therefore the more clearly does he see the majesty and mercy of God.

The Life of Christ translated and edited by William Henry Hutchings, 1881.

Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared. - Bonaventure

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