Franciscan Institute receives anonymous $1.2 million bequest

Published: 2005-12-19

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (CNS) -- An anonymous bequest of $1.2 million to the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University will provide financial support for attracting speakers, lecturers, researchers and teachers of Franciscan studies to the institute. The endowment is named in honor of three former Franciscan Institute scholars: Franciscan Fathers Philotheus Boehner, Eligius Buytaert and Allan Wolter. "The new BBW Endowment -- as we have fondly taken to calling it -- is a marvelous tribute to the teaching careers and scholarly work of three extraordinary friars who taught at the university during the early decades of the institute's existence," said Franciscan Father Michael F. Cusato, director of the institute and dean of the university's school of Franciscan studies.

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