Festivities for Feast of St. Bonaventure Start Wednesday

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., July 13, 2009 — Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., St. Bonaventure University president, and Fr. Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., director of the Franciscan Institute and dean of the School of Franciscan Studies, invite the public to attend a series of public events highlighting the Feast of St. Bonaventure, beginning Wednesday, July 15.

The celebration will begin Wednesday at 5 p.m. with the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Feast of St. Bonaventure in the University Chapel, Doyle Hall. The celebrant and homilist will be Fr. Rick Martignetti, O.F.M., associate director of the Pre-Theologate program at Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio. A dessert reception will follow in Café LaVerna.

On Saturday, July 18, an evening prayer service will begin at 5 p.m. in the University Chapel followed by the Academic Convocation in the Robert R. Jones Board of Trustees Room, Doyle Hall, from 5:45 to 7 p.m. Dr. Guy Geltner of Oxford University and Dr. Andrew Traver of Southeastern Louisiana University will deliver major papers at the symposium on the theme of “William of St-Amour and the Friars at the University of Paris, 1252-1272.”

Geltner is a lecturer in medieval history at University College, Oxford. His latest book is “The Medieval Prison: A Social History,” published by Princeton University Press. Taver, whose fields of study include ancient and medieval history, is an associate professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Their papers will be responded to Fr. Robert J. Karris, O.F.M., who is on the research faculty at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure.

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