Mission San Buenaventura
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Mission San Buenaventura, formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The parish church in the city of Ventura, Cal
The restored chapel at Mission San Buenaventura in July, 2005
Fernando Librado, a Chumash elder and master tomol builder was born at the mission in 1839.
Mission San Buenaventura circa 1900. Note the thickness of the chapel side wall and the massive buttresses supporting it.
Mission courtyard
Bonaventure
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Bonaventure was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.
Mission San Buenaventura
…Designated a California Historical Landmark, the mission is one of many locally designated landmarks in downtown Ventura. The mission was named after St. Bonaventure, a 13th-century Franciscan saint, one of the early leaders of the Order to which the friars belonged, and a Doctor of the Church. On June 9, 2020, Pope…
17th-century portrait of Bonaventure by French painter and friar Claude François
Legenda maior, 1477
Bonaventure receives the envoys of the Byzantine Emperor at the Second Council of Lyon.
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne