 and today is the memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. He was born in 1221 and baptized John, but received the name Bonaventure when he became a Franciscan at the age of 22. Saint Francis died about five years after the saint's birth, but he is credited with healing Bonaventure as a boy of a serious illness. The friars elected Bonaventure to serve as the General Minister,