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JOHN BONA (1609-1674)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 190 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BONA (1609-1674)  ,
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Italian cardinal and author, was born at
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Mondovi in Piedmont, on the loth of
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October 1609 . In 1624 he joined the Congregation of Feuillants and was successively elected prior of Asti, abbot of Mondovi and general of his order . He was created cardinal in 1669 by Clement IX., and during the conclave, which followed that pope's
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death, was regarded as a possible
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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
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editions of his
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works, the best are those of Paris (1677),
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Turin (1747) and Antwerp (1777) . Stores of interesting rubrical information, interspersed with verses and prayers, are to be found in the De Libris Liturgicis and the Divina Psalmodia;
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recent advances in liturgical studies, however, have somewhat lessened their value . The De Discretione Spirituum treats of certain higher phases of mysticism; the Via Compendii ad Deum was well translated in 1876 by Henry Collins, O . Cist., under the title of An Easy Way to
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God .
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Sir Roger L'Estrange's
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translation (The Guide to Heaven, 168o) of the Manuductio ad Coelum was reprinted in 1898, and a new edition of the Principia Vitae Christianae, ed. by D . O'Connor, appeared in 1906 . The devotional
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treatise De Sacrificio Missae is the classical
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work in its field (new edition by Ildephonsus Cummins, 1903) .

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

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