Born and died in Croatia, Bishop Boniface of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was in Florence in 1568 at which time he consecrated the Franciscan convent of Santa Chiara, himself an Observant Franciscan Friar. He was certainly in Italy for the Council of Trent in the 1550s and 1564, at Rome in 1580 to report on his visitations in Eastern Europe, and thus it is not surprising that he also would have visited Franciscan houses in Italy as well. He was the author of Liber de perenni cultu Terrae Sanctae et de fructuosa eius peregrinatione and Liber de ortu clericorum in ecclesia both published in Venice.
For more on the Fra Bonifacio de Stephanis see Tanja Trška, “Una processione da farsi ogni anno con una Messa Solenne. Reception of Stone Relics from the Holy Land in Renaissance Ragusa.” In Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, edited by Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner, and Bianca Kuhnel, 79–93. London, New York: Routledge, 2017, esp. p. 81.
| Birth Family | Destefanis |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 82 |
| Database ID | 14209 |
1500 or 1504 |
birth |
February 6th, 1582 |
death |
| vescovo (bishop, episcopus) | November 17th, 1564 to February 6th, 1582 |
| S. Chiara 01a Cappella et Altare Maggiore de Borgianni | 1568 |
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| S. Chiara 11 cartella | 1568 to 1808 |
| Lopud, Dalmatia, Croatia | birth | 1500 or 1504 |
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| Ragusa, Dalmatia, Croatia | residence | circa 1520 (date is approximate) to 1543 |
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| Stagno, Dalmatia, Croatia | residence | November 17th, 1564 (year is approximate) to January 1582 (year is approximate) |
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| Timişoara, Romania | death | February 6th, 1582 |
| D. M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy | rec. https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdestefan.html |
| ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) | rec. 166, no. 11 |
| WikiData | rec. Q892558 |
