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BONA, JOHN (1609-1674)

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BONA, See also:JOHN (1609-1674) , See also:Italian See also:cardinal and author, was See also:born at See also:Mondovi in See also:Piedmont, on the loth of See also:October 1609. In 1624 he joined the See also:Congregation of Feuillants and was successively elected See also:prior of See also:Asti, See also:abbot of Mondovi and See also:general of his See also:order. He was created cardinal in 1669 by See also:Clement IX., and during the See also:conclave, which followed that See also:pope's See also:death, was regarded as a possible See also:candidate for the papacy. He died on the 27th of October 1674. Bona's writings are mainly concerned with liturgical and devotional subjects. Of the numerous See also:editions of his See also:works, the best are those of See also:Paris (1677), See also:Turin (1747) and See also:Antwerp (1777). Stores of interesting rubrical See also:information, interspersed with verses and prayers, are to be found in the De Libris Liturgicis and the Divina Psalmodia; See also:recent advances in liturgical studies, however, have somewhat lessened their value. The De Discretione Spirituum treats of certain higher phases of See also:mysticism; the Via Compendii ad Deum was well translated in 1876 by See also:Henry See also:Collins, O. See also:Cist., under the See also:title of An Easy Way to See also:God. See also:Sir See also:Roger L'Estrange's See also:translation (The See also:Guide to See also:Heaven, 168o) of the Manuductio ad Coelum was reprinted in 1898, and a new edition of the Principia Vitae Christianae, ed. by D. O'See also:Connor, appeared in 1906. The devotional See also:treatise De Sacrificio Missae is the classical See also:work in its See also:field (new edition by Ildephonsus Cummins, 1903).

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chief source for the See also:life of Bona is the See also:biography by the Cistercian abbot Bertolotti (Asti, 1677) ; the best See also:modern study is by A. Ighina (Mondovi, 1874).

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