The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
However, let it be remembered here, that afterwards St. Bonaventure,
being at the 18th year of his age entered of this order of St.
Francis, and in the general chapter of Narbonne chosen minister
general of those friars, he then so altered and regulated his rule and
order, or rather reformed it, that ever since it might more aptly be
called the order of St. Bonaventure than that of St. Francis. Which
St. Bonaventure afterwards being made a Bishop, and one of the
Cardinals of Rome, wrote the Life of St. Francis in Latin, and therein
recounted so many stories of his conversion as aforesaid, of his
perfection, religion, reparation of three churches, his sincere,
mortified life, and the manner of preparing creatures for his
refection, his humility, obedience, condescension, and bowing
downwards of himself, his love of poverty, the wonderful supply of his
wants, his affections towards piety, his desire of martyrdom, his
study, and virtuous orations, his skill in Scripture and spirit of
prophecy, his efficacious predicatements, his sacred marks, and holy
chastisements of his body, his patience in undergoing the pangs of
death, 4th Oct. 1226, that in this place I have only room to name
them. And as a surplusage thereto, St. Bonaventure, as also Alosi
Lepomani, Bishop of Seville, ascribe to St. Francis, before and after
his death, the doing of no less than 113 miracles, or supernatural
acts, which, I think, are more than are recorded by the sacred
writings to be done by our Saviour Jesus.
But, notwithstanding all that is done and said by St. Bonaventure in
praise of St. Francis, he did not much rely upon the merit of him or
any other Saint, since it is an established sanction at the end of all
his hymns pertaining to this order of Franciscans,
Soli gloria tibi, Domine, qui natus es de Virgine.
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