§ 1.

  We however, who, with God disposing, having been carried up to the apex of the Apostolate, exercise the care of the Christian flock, which on account of the pleasant debt of the pastoral office, We aspire with intense desire to form into the college of the Saints, as We ought, to the Church Militant, for whose edification and increment, We have caused the same Bonaventure to be registered in the catalogue of the Saints, we can by no means speak unsuitably: Exult today and praise, dwelling of Sion, that is the Christian religion, in which as on Mount Sion there dwells by means of the True Faith the True God, since great in your midst is the Saint. Certainly: "In the midst of the Church He opened his mouth, and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding and clothed him with the stole of glory, (Eccli. 15:5), and He crowned him at the gates of Paradise, in which with the Angels he rejoices in the one glory and felicity.