Bonaventura Speeckaert
Bonaventura Speeckaert, religious name of Ingelbertus Speeckaert (c. 1570–1633) was a member of the Capuchin Order from the Low Countries. He had a reputation as a preacher and was the author of at least one devotional work in Dutch.[1]
Life[edit]
Speeckaert was born in Brussels, the son of Judocus Speeckaert and Barbara Vandenbroecke, and was baptised Ingelbertus in Brussels Minster on 12 May 1575.[2] He entered the Capuchin novitiate in Brussels, under the novice master Felix van Lapedon, taking the name in religion Bonaventura. He was professed as a Capuchin on 14 July 1593, giving his age as 23.[3] In 1597 he was living in Tournai. As a young priest in 1603 he was made a prior and put in charge of the construction of a new friary in Meenen.[3]
In 1608 he became custos in Leuven and the following year first prior of the new foundation in Ypres.[3] He was in the Antwerp house in 1611, in Brussels in 1612, in the Rhineland 1614–1617, and was appointed preacher and confessor in Ghent on 6 July 1617.[2] He died in Brussels on 17 February 1633.[2]
Works[edit]
- Den Spieghel der Patientie onses salighmakers Iesu Christi ghebenedijdt (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert, 1632)
References[edit]
- ^ Paul Bergmans, "Speeckaert (Bonaventure)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 23 (Brussels, 1924), 312-313.
- ^ a b c P. Hildebrand, De Kapucijnen in de Nederlanden en het Prinsbisdom Luik, vol. 7 (Antwerp, 1952), p. 144.
- ^ a b c P. Hildebrand, Bonaventura Speeckaert van Brussel, from Franciscaans Leven, 19 (1936), pp. 57-60, 112-116. (in Dutch)