Cardinal Giovanni Bona

Cardinal Giovanni Bona was born in 1609 to an old French family at Piedmont, Italy. Though his father wanted him to pursue a military career, Giovanni became a Cistercian instead and worked for fifteen years at Turin. He later became a superior general in Rome and modestly refused the Bishopric of Asti. He was eventually made a cardinal in 1669 by Pope Clement IX. Giovanni\'s literary works include An Easy War to God , Principia et Documenta Vitae Christianae , and Manuductio ad Caelum , the...See more

Cardinal Giovanni Bona was born in 1609 to an old French family at Piedmont, Italy. Though his father wanted him to pursue a military career, Giovanni became a Cistercian instead and worked for fifteen years at Turin. He later became a superior general in Rome and modestly refused the Bishopric of Asti. He was eventually made a cardinal in 1669 by Pope Clement IX. Giovanni\'s literary works include An Easy War to God , Principia et Documenta Vitae Christianae , and Manuductio ad Caelum , the latter often compared to Thomas a Kempis\' Imitation of Christ . He died in 1674. See less