Background
Baron was born at Clonmel, County Tipperary. His mother, one of 14 children, was a sister of the Irish Jesuit priest, Father Ambrose Baron.
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Bonaventure Baron
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Career
Bartholomew Baron joined the Franciscan community of Clonmel, pursued his studies in philosophy at the Old University of Leuven. Upon the completion of his theological courses, he was appointed professor and devoted himself specially to a defense of the Scotist system then generally assailed. During his stay in Rome he published numerous works on theology, philosophy and history, all listed below.
Ordained in 1634, he took the religious name Bonaventure.
Around 1651 he left Rome, and went first to a house of his Order at Schwaz in Tyrol, and then to Salzburg, where he was kindly received by Archbishop Guidobald. He was sent as commissary into Habsburg Hungary (about 1656), was again in Schwaz (1661), went to Paris, taught for some time at Würzburg, where he published a volume of his "Opuscula" (1668), taught theology at Lyon in southern France and finally returned to Italy.
lieutenant is said that representations were made to secure his appointment to the Archbishopric of Cashel, but that he declined the office. He died on 18 March 1696, and was buried at Street Isidore in Rome, where his tomb with the inscription, written by John de Burgo, a rector of the college, still exists.
Two contemporary oil paintings of him have come down to us: one is in the Franciscan friary in Clonmel, the other in a Franciscan friary in Dublin.
There is also a fresco of Bonaventure in the aula of Saint Isidore"s College in Rome. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, educated (1913). "Bonaventura Baron".
Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton. Webb, Alfred (1878). " Baron, Bonaventure".
A Compendium of Irish Dublin: M. H. Gill & son. Wikisource.
Membership
He was appointed historiographer in 1676 by Cosmo I de" Medici, Grand-duke of Tuscany and was elected a member of the Academy of Florence.
