포텐차의 복자 보나벤투라

10월26일 포텐차의 복자 보나벤투라

Bl. Bonaventure of Potenza, priest, I Order

선 종 :  1711  10. 26,

시 복 : 1775. 교황 비오 6세 

나폴리의 포덴짜 출신으로 노체라에서 꼰벤뚜알 프란치스칸이 되었다.

그는 순종의 덕행으로 유명하고, 또 장상직을 결코 받아들이지 않았던 것으로 보인다.

그러나 그는 수련장직은 맡았다.

성모님께 대한 보나벤뚜라의 신심은 원죄없이 잉태하신 성모 신심이었다.

그는 라벨로에서 운명했는데, "순종의 모델"성인으로 공경을 받고 있다.

Bonaventure was born of poor but virtuous parents in Potenza in the kingdom of Naples. A pious priest gave the boy instructions in Latin. At the age of 15, Bonaventure received the Franciscan habit among the Conventuals. After his profession, he resumed his studies with great ardor, but his zeal for perfection was less ardent.

His superiors sent him to Amalfi, where he lived eight years under the guidance of an eminent director of souls. This spiritual director trained his pupil above all in humility, self abnegation, and obedience, and Bonaventure achieved a high degree of perfection in these virtues.

One day Blessed Bonaventure of Potenza told his master that the key to the sacristy was lost.

"Well," said his master with a smile, "then you will have to look for it in the well; get a rod and fish it out."

Promptly Bonaventure went to the well and with rod and line fished for the key. It was not long before he actually drew it out. God rewarded him in a miraculous manner for his blind obedience.