Saint Bonaventure was formally canonised in 1484 by the Franciscan Pope Sixtus IV, and ranked along with Thomas Aquinas as the greatest of the Doctors of the Church by another Franciscan, Pope Sixtus V, in 1587. Bonaventure was regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages
Bonaventure's feast day was at first celebrated on the second Sunday in July, but was moved in 1568 to 14 July. My relative. Ventura Noya, was baptised as Boaventura on a 14 July. Eric Edgar On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM, <bsei2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Lee. > > Your cousin's great grandfather's name was simply Ventura. I am the one > that gave you the name Boaventura some time ago, but now that we have the > benefit of his baptismal record we know that Ventura was his given name. > > As I understand it, Boaventura is a more common given name because it is > the name of a saint, and those with this name often go by Ventura. My > wife's mother and grandmother knew him as Ventura, but I believe they > mistakenly thought it was short for Boaventura so that is why I was told it > was Boaventura. Finding his baptism proved otherwise. She said they used > to joke that my great grandparents, Ventura and Felicidade de Mello were > named good fortune and happiness (boa ventura e felicidade) even though > they never quite found either. My wife's family knew my great > grandparents because my wife's grandmother was my great grandmother's niece. > > Bill > > On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 9:11:45 AM UTC-8, Lee wrote: > >> My cousins great grandfather was Boaventura but always used just Ventura >> as his name. > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
