Saint Bonaventura - St. Nicholas' Cathedral - Ljubljana
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A statue of Saint Bonaventura in a niche near the Slovene Door in the west facade of St. Nicholas' Cathedral, Ljubljana.
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Location: Slovenia
Date Posted: 09/29/2016
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A statue of Saint Bonaventura by the sculptor Ivan Pengov (1912) in a niche near the Slovene Door in the west facade of St. Nicholas' Cathedral, Ljubljana.
"Saint Bonaventure (Italian: San 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 a 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-Bonaventura.
He was born at Bagnorea in Tuscany, not far from Viterbo, then part of the Papal States. Almost nothing is known of his childhood, other than the names of his parents, Giovanni di Fidanza and Maria Ritella."
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