Blessed Bonaventure Of Barcelona

Also known as: Bonaventure of Riudoms; Bonaventura Gran; Fra Bonaventure of Barcelona; Miguel Baptista Gran Peris

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

11 September; 24 November (Riudoms, Spain)

Born

24 November 1620 on Carrer de la Butxaca (Pocket Street) in Riudoms, Tarragona, Catalonia (in modern Spain) as Miguel Baptista Gran Peris; the street where he was born has been re-named in his honour

Died

11 September 1684 at the friary of Saint Bonaventure on the Palantine Hill in Rome, Italy of natural causes; buried at the friary; relics transferred to Riudoms, Spain in 1972; relics enshrined in the tabernacle chapel in the church of Saint James the Apostle in Riudoms; relics are processed through the town of Riudoms each 24 November during a celebratory feast devoted to Blessed Bonaventure

Beatified

10 June 1906 by Pope Pius X; his beatification miracles included the healing of a woman in 1790 from injuries sustained in a fall from a horse; his beatification miracles included the healing of a woman in 1818 who had fallen into a coma for three days following childbirth, and was brought back to consciousness through prayer and the imposition of a relic of Blessed Bonaventure

Venerated

1775 by Pope Pius VI

Biography

Blessed Bonaventure of Barcelona, also known as Bonaventure of Riudoms, Bonaventura Gran, Fra Bonaventure of Barcelona, and Miguel Baptista Gran Peris, was born on 24 November 1620 in Riudoms, Tarragona, Catalonia (in modern Spain). He was the only child in a farm family.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified

Beatified1906-06-10 by 10 June 1906 by Pope Pius X; his beatification miracles included the healing of a woman in 1790 from injuries sustained in a fall from a horse; his beatification miracles included the healing of a woman in 1818 who had fallen into a coma for three days following childbirth, and was brought back to consciousness through prayer and the imposition of a relic of Blessed Bonaventure