Saint Bonaventure: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Saint Bonaventure, credited to Fr. Laurence Costelloe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Saint Bonaventure by Fr. Laurence Costelloe. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. St. Bonaventure (1221 -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" (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Saint Bonaventure
• Author credits: Fr. Laurence Costelloe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:28:42

Catalogue topics

• Catholic
• saint
• franciscan
• imprimatur
• nihil obstat
• seraphic doctor

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 3:40
2. 01 - Childhood and Youth — 9:49
3. 02 - Sanctity and Learning — 14:09
4. 03 - The Mendicant Orders Assailed — 11:28
5. 04 - The Mendicants Vindicated — 12:33
6. 05 - Minister-General — 12:27
7. 06 - Discipline and Observance — 12:58
8. 07 - Incidents of Administration — 17:18
9. 08 - St. Francis' Biographer — 14:14
10. 09 - Interior Spirit — 12:39
11. 10 - Love of God — 12:21
12. 11 - The Archbishopric of York — 12:09
13. 12 - Miscellaneous Anecdotes of the Saint — 17:49
14. 13 - The Cardinalate — 13:04
15. 14 - Death — 17:06
16. 15 - Canonization — 14:58

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