ABOUT THE EVENT
SCOTUS DAY EVENT
Beyond Ite vos: Celebrating 800 years of Francis’s Stigmata
At the death of St. Francis, Br. Elias announces the miracle of the wounds of Christ (stigmata) revealed on the body of Francis of Assisi.
This miracle is further revealed by writers and artists, who attempt to capture the moment of the Stigmata.
We will focus our thoughts on two versions of the Stigmata: that of Br. Leo and that of St. Bonaventure as painted by Berlinghieri and Giotto.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM will speak on the “Invention of the Stigmata.”
Br. Gilberto is a Tejano, a Friar Minor (Franciscan) and Full Professor of the Theological Study of Christian Spirituality. He taught for 15 years at the Catholic Theological Union before moving to Rome to work at the Pontifical University Antonianum (PUA). In March of 2020 he became the pontifically appointed Secretary of the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis (PAMI). In June of 2022 Pope Francisco freed him from his position with PAMI so that he could return to CTU as Professor of Spirituality and the John Duns Scotus Chair of Franciscan Spirituality.
He recently coedited a book called Evolving Methods for the Study of Spirituality (Peeter’s 2023). He is completing a book on the Marian Spirituality of Sor Juana de la Cruz Vasquez Gutierrez, a Spanish Franciscan sister who was a mystic, a pastor and a preacher to royalty, prelates, nuns and her parishioners in the early 1500s. Friar Gilberto organizes and preaches retreats and workshops for the Franciscan family. As a result, he is writing a spiritual formation book focusing on the five pillars of Franciscan/Clarian Spirituality.
