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St. Bonaventure
He wrote the life of Francis of Assisi that the Franciscans adopted as their official one, and governed more than thirty thousand friars for seventeen years while the order split over how strictly to keep the Rule.
Feast July 15 · Bagnoregio in Lazio, and Paris
St. Bridget of Sweden
She raised eight children, founded a small hospital with her husband and attended the sick in it herself, and then, widowed, moved to Rome and spent twenty-four years telling popes to their faces to leave Avignon.
Feast July 23 · Uppland, Sweden, and Rome