The Franciscan Institute invites the St. Bonaventure University community to attend the Sixth Annual Ignatius Brady, O.F.M., Memorial Endowment Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the University Chapel.
Dr. Beverly Mayne Kienzle will be this year’s guest lecturer. Kienzle is a professor at Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University. She is the John H. Morison Professor of the Practice of Latin and Romance Languages. Her research centers on medieval preaching, saints and a concern about the violence against women during the Middle Ages.
Kienzle’s lecture topic is “The Friars, Medieval Women and The Inquisition.”
A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. The event will end with a cocktail hour in Doyle Hall Dining Room from 5 until 6 p.m.
Fr. Ignatius was one of the world’s leading authorities on the thought and spirituality of the great medieval Franciscan writers, including St. Bonaventure. Fr. Ignatius taught at the Franciscan Institute in the late 1940s and 1950s, returning for summer sessions in the 1970s. He received an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure University in 1974, during the celebration of the seventh centenary of the death of Saint Bonaventure.
In 2004, St. John the Baptist Province, Cincinnati, announced a $1 million gift to the university to honor the memory of Fr. Ignatius, establishing an endowment to fund research at the Franciscan Institute, provide financial aid to students enrolled at the Institute, and provide funding for an annual lecture at the Institute honoring Fr. Ignatius.