Bonaventure dies at Lyon
1274
The Franciscan theologian and minister general of the order, known as the Seraphic Doctor, died during the Council of Lyon. His mystical synthesis of Augustinian theology stood beside that of Aquinas as the two great theological achievements of the mid-thirteenth century. The deaths of both Aquinas and Bonaventure in the same year marked the close of scholasticism's golden age and the end of an intellectual epoch.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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