BADOER (BADUARIO) da PERÀGA, BONAVENTURA, blessed. — Born in Padua to a noble family on 22 June 1332, he died in Rome on 10 June 1389. He entered the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine in the convent of Padua; he obtained his academic degrees in Paris and there was also a master, probably toward the end of 1362. In 1364 he was summoned to Bologna to establish that theological college and compile the statutes of the faculty; in April 1368 he was in Padua as « sacrae paginae professor ». He had friendly relations with Francesco Petrarca, who proclaimed him « ornament of Padua »; and when the latter died (1374), it was Fra’ B. who delivered his funeral eulogy. On 17 May 1377, at the Chapter of Verona, he was elected prior general of the Order, and on the following 18 September Urban VI created him a cardinal. He was a convinced supporter of Urban, who around 1380 entrusted him and two other cardinals with the task of compiling laws to give a uniform direction to theological studies in the Italian universities. B., who in 1375 had been sent as papal legate to Hungary, was sent by Urban VI to Poland. He died a violent death, but we do not know the circumstances.
Besides the funeral oration for Petrarca, which was printed only in 1836, theological works attributed to him include: Commentaria in quattuor libros sententiarum (printed in Nuremberg in 1479 and 1491), Tractatus de Immaculata Conceptione B. M. V., commentaries on the letters of St. James and St. John; — ascetical works: Meditationes devotae in vitam Christi (Nuremberg 1472); Speculum b. Mariae Virginis (Augsburg and Strasbourg 1476); Sermones de Tempore (Zwoll, Hagenau 1479), and other Sermones remaining in manuscript. Some of his works were printed among those of St. Bonaventure.