A Compendium of the History of the Catholic Church From the Commencement of the
A Compendium of the History of the Catholic Church From the Commencement of the
Theodore Noethen
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Francis, who foresaw the graces which divine mercy would lavish on this child of benediction, in his after 34 398 HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH. life. This chosen soul, when only four years of age, was attacked by a dangerous illness ; his disconsolate mother went to St. Francis and asked his interces- sion in her son's behalf. St. Francis prayed for him, and obtained his recovery. When Bonaventura was told of this signal favor he had received from God, he testified the most fervent gratitude, and at t...he age of twenty he entered the order of the Friars Minors, in accordance with the vow he had made his mother. He was shortly afterward sent to Paris to complete his studies under the celebrated Alexander of Hales, who was one of the most learned Religious of the order. Bonaventura made rapid progress, and was ad- mitted to the degree of Doctor at the same time as St. Thomas, to whom he was devotedly attached. These two holy Doctors frequently visited each other, and entertained the highest mutual esteem.
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