St Bonaventure Oratory was one of those shadow parishes in the archdiocese which was still in the list of churches that I got from the directory, but had been relegated at some point in the past (trying to determine whether a church has been relegated is its own little challenge, I’ve found with some parish websites lingering longer than the parish itself, while other parishes apparently continue life without having any web presence). So not being able to go to the oratory today (not that I could have made it with my schedule this week, or for that matter, the fact that they didn’t do weekday Masses before they were closed), I’m drawing the saint himself.
Bonaventure was one of the first generation of Franciscans and was responsible for the integration of the study of theology with the mendicant life of the Franciscans.
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