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The Embattled Friar
2012,2011
Overview
Saints usually don’t behave as “normal” people do. Take Bonaventure our first example. Sporting razor-sharp iron fingernails, he “impetuously leaped down” from his perch at the top of a tree to attack an enemy, but Christ “sent Francis with a stone to grind down Bonaventure’s nails.”¹ Hardly pious behavior; yet that’s how an enraptured Franciscan envisioned the man who was canonized about two centuries later. This bizarre image of an iron-taloned, tree-climbing Bonaventure sums up the anxieties felt throughout the entire Franciscan order that found expression in the troubled mind of one of its members. Problems within the order will
