Bonaventure Badoardo de Peraga

Bonaventura Badoardo de Peraga OESA , also: Bonsemblantes , Venetian : Badoer ; other forms of name: Badoario , Baduarius , Baduario and Baduaro (born June 22, 1332 in Padua , † June 10, 1389 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church . He was Prior General of the Augustinian Hermits .

Life

At a very young age he entered the order of the Augustinian hermits. He earned a master's degree in theology and later became a professor at the University of Paris . Pope Innocent VI entrusted him with founding a college at the University of Bologna . On May 17, 1377 he was elected prior general of his order in Verona . Pope Gregory XI. appointed him nuncio to King László I of Hungary .

Pope Urban VI. appointed him on September 18, 1378 cardinal priest of the titular church of Santa Cecilia . He was the author of numerous works including commentaries on the Bible, the lives of saints, and sermons; he gave the funeral sermon for the poet Petrarch , and he was in correspondence with Catherine of Siena, who was later canonized .

On July 10, 1389, he was murdered by an arrow shot in Rome at the behest of the ruler of Padua, Francesco Carrara , while he was crossing the Tiber on the Angel's Bridge to get to the Vatican . He was first buried in the church of San Trifone , later his bones were transferred to the church of San Agostino and buried there in the chapel of St. Nicola de Tolentino .

Web links

• Badoaro de Peraga, OESA, Bonaventura. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed January 20, 2017.
• Beato Bonaventura Baduario (1332-1389). Augustinian Hermits, accessed January 21, 2017 (Italian).