St. Bonaventure College 1877-1977

Abstract

From the introduction:

A century of activity certainly means a memorable date in the annals of such a center of study as the College of St. Bonaventure in Quaracchi, today moved to Grottaferrata. Theologians, historians, and especially medievalists who have benefited from his scholarly publications, would justly reproach us if, through excessive modesty, we omitted the event from silence. Before we thought of any academic or liturgical celebration, the thought occurred to us to present readers and friends with a volume that would reconstruct in chronological stages the past of our house and give a history of the various commissions of work, the most significant, published collections since the critical edition of St. Bonaventure's Opera omnia.

Other study centers have preceded us on this path and have provided enviable models on similar occasions. By way of example, let us recall the volume dedicated in 1958 by Fr. Mark Angelo, OFM, to our St. Bonaventure University in New York State, on the 100th anniversary of what was originally the humble College of Allegany; the volume that the Conventual Fathers of the Seraphicum published in 1964 for the inauguration of the new headquarters of their Pontifical Faculty of Theology; and finally, the volume that the Fathers of the College of St. Anthony in Rome published in 1970.

The management of the "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum" has seen fit to suspend for one semester the regular course, uninterrupted since 1908, of publishing articles, documents and reviews, and to provide hospitality to current studies, which in no way deviates from the norms of the journal, since after the required period of 100 years an event enters fully into history.