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Title: Saint Bonaventure
The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order

Author: Rev. Fr. Laurence Costelloe, O.F.M.

Release Date: August 16, 2010 [EBook #33448]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Notes]
This text is derived from a copy in the Ave Maria University
library, catalog number "B 765 .B74 C678 1911"

Footnotes have been renumbered to avoid ambiguity.
[End Transcriber's Notes]

THE FRIAR SAINTS SERIES

_Editors for the Franciscan Lives_

The Very Rev. Fr. OSMUND. O.F.M., Provincial, and C. M. ANTONY

_Editors for the Dominican Lives_

The Rev. Fr. BEDE JARRETT. O.P., and C. M. ANTONY

ST. BONAVENTURE

Nihil Obstat:
D. THOMAS BERGH, O.S.B.,
_Censor Deputatus_

Imprimatur:
EDM. CAN. SURMONT,
_Vicarius Generalis_

WESTMONASTERII,
_die 30 Martii, 1911._

[Illustration;
ST. BONAVENTURE.

_From an engraving by Eitel after the painting by
Cavazzola (P. Morando)_]

SAINT BONAVENTURE

THE SERAPHIC DOCTOR MINISTER-GENERAL OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER
CARDINAL BISHOP OF ALBANO

BY THE REV. FR. LAURENCE COSTELLOE, O.F.M.

[Illustration:
Herald. "DEUS MEUS ET OMNIA"]

WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
LONDON, BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA

1911

{v}

PREFATORY NOTICE.

The first two volumes of the "Friar Saints" Series now published will
be followed at short intervals by four more "Lives," two at a time,
Dominican and Franciscan together. Should the first six "Lives" prove
successful they will be followed by a second set of six. The order of
publication will probably be as follows:--

_Dominican_.

(1) St. Thomas Aquinas.
By Fr. PLACID CONWAY, O.P.

(2) St. Vincent Ferrer.
By Fr. STANISLAUS HOGAN, O.P.

(3) St. Pius V.
By C. M. ANTONY.

(4) St. Antoninus of Florence.
By Fr. BEDE JARRETT, O.P.

(5) St. Raymond of Pennafort.
By Fr. THOMAS SCHWERTNER, O