Bonaventure: Poetry
The Cross is the Medicine of the World
Crux est porta paradisi,
In qua sancti sunt confisi,
Qui vicerunt omnia.
Crux ext mundi medicina,
Per quam bonitas divina
Facit mirabilia.
(Lo, the cross is heaven’s portal,
In which trust the saints immortal,
Who have conquered in the fight.
This world find the cross its healing,
God’s own goodness till revealing
By its wonder-working might.)
(Monastic hymn, (first verse))
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