St. Bonaventure's Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

01 - Chapter I. The Angels intercede for Man's redemption

02 - Chapter II. The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her seven petitions to God

03 - Chapter III. The Incarnation of Christ, and the angelical salutation of the Blessed Virgin

04 - Chapter IV. Our blessed Lady visits her cousin St. Elizabeth, in whose house the Magnificat and Benedictus were composed

05 - Chapter V. St. Joseph thinks of dismissing the Blessed Virgin, and God suffers his beloved to be afflicted

06 - Chapter VI. The Nativity of Jesus Christ

07 - Chapter VII. The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ

08 - Chapter VIII. The Epiphany, or manifestation of our Lord Jesus

09 - Chapter IX. The Blessed Virgin remains at the crib at Bethlehem, till the full term of forty days is expired

10 - Chapter X. The Purification of our blessed Lady, or Candlemas-day

11 - Chapter XI. Christ's flight into Egypt

12 - Chapter XII. Our Lord's return from Egypt

13 - Chapter XIII. Our Lord remains at Jerusalem

14 - Chapter XIV. Our Lord's life from his twelfth to his thirtieth year

15 - Chapter XV. The Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ

16 - Chapter XVI. The fast and temptation of Christ; his return to his mother; the four means to attain to a perfect purity of heart; the great advantages of prayer; the resistance to be made to gluttony; why, and for whom God works his miracles

17 - Chapter XVII. Christ opens the book in the synagogue

18 - Chapter XVIII. He calls his disciples

19 - Chapter XIX. The conversion of water into wine at the marriage-feast

20 - Chapter XX. The sermon of our Lord on the mount, which he begins by poverty

21 - Chapter XXI. The servant of the centurion and the son of the prince cured

22 - Chapter XXII. The paralytic brought in to our Lord by the house-top and cured

23 - Chapter XXIII. Our Lord cures Simon's mother-in-law

24 - Chapter XXIV. Our Lord sleeps in the boat

25 - Chapter XXV. The widow's son raised by our Lord

26 - Chapter XXVI. Our Lord raises a girl from the dead, and cures Martha

27 - Chapter XXVII. The conversion of Magdalen, and other things

28 - Chapter XXVIII. John sends his disciples to Jesus

29 - Chapter XXIX. The death of St. John the Baptist

30 - Chapter XXX. The conference our Lord had with the Samaritan woman, as he sat, being faint and wearied, by the side of the well to rest himself

31 - Chapter XXXI. The disciples of our Lord pluck ears of corn and eat them, through hunger, on the Sabbath

32 - Chapter XXXII. The Jews having driven our Lord Jesus out of the city to the top of a steep mountain, endeavor to throw him down thence

33 - Chapter XXXIII. The man with a withered hand cured by our Lord Jesus

34 - Chapter XXXIV. The multiplication of the loaves, and how our Lord provides for those who truly love him

35 - Chapter XXXV. Our Lord's flight when they would have made him king; and against worldly honors in general

36 - Chapter XXXVI. Our Lord prays on the mount; and descending walks on the waters; some reflections on prayer

37 - Chapter XXXVII. Christ relieves the daughter of the woman of Canaan who was possessed with the devil; our guardian angels faithfully assist us

38 - Chapter XXXVIII. The Pharisees and others scandalized at the words of our Lord

39 - Chapter XXXIX. The reward promised by our Lord to those who forsake all for him

40 - Chapter XL. Our Lord Jesus asks his disciples what the Jews say of him

41 - Chapter XLI. The glorious transfiguration of our Lord Jesus on Mount Tabor

42 - Chapter XLII. Our Lord casts the buyers and sellers out of the temple

43 - Chapter XLIII. The sick man who was healed at the water in Jerusalem, called Probatica Piscina

44 - Chapter XLIV. Our Lord Jesus received by the two sisters, Mary and Martha; and of the two sorts of lives signified thereby

45 - Chapter XLV. Our Lord warns the Jews that the church shall devolve on the Gentiles, in the parable of the husbandmen who killed the son of their Lord

46 - Chapter XLVI. The Jews seek to ensnare our Lord by his own words

47 - Chapter XLVII. The blind man restored to sight at Jericho; etc.

48 - Chapter XLVIII. Our Lord goes into the house of Zacheus

49 - Chapter XLIX. Christ gives sight to the man born blind

50 - Chapter L. Our Lord retreats from the temple to hide himself, when the Jews would have stoned him

51 - Chapter LI. The Jews seek a second time to stone him

52 - Chapter LII. The raising of Lazarus

53 - Chapter LIII. Christ curses the fig-tree

54 - Chapter LIV. The woman detected in adultery

55 - Chapter LV. The conspiracy of the Jews against Christ, and his flight into the city of Ephraim

56 - Chapter LVI. Our Lord's return to Bethania, where Mary Magdalen anoints his feet

57 - Chapter LVII. Our Lord Jesus comes to Jerusalem en Palm Sunday riding on an ass

58 - Chapter LVIII. What our Lord Jesus did from Palm Sunday to the following Thursday

59 - Chapter LIX. Our Lord's supper the night before his passion, and circumstances relating to it

60 - Chapter LX. The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and his prayer in the garden

61 - Chapter LXI. Our Lord Jesus betrayed by Judas

62 - Chapter LXII. Our blessed Lord is carried before Pilate, scourged at the pillar, and crowned with thorns

63 - Chapter LXIII. Our Lord is condemned to suffer a cruel death on the cross, and compelled to carry the same to Mount Calvary

64 - Chapter LXIV. Our Lord Jesus Christ is nailed to the cross

65 - Chapter LXV. The words which our Lord spoke while hanging upon the cross: he yields up his spirit

66 - Chapter LXVI. The opening of our blessed Saviour's side with a spear

67 - Chapter LXVII. The descent of our Lord from the cross

68 - Chapter LXVIII. The embalming and burial of our Lord's body

69 - Chapter LXIX. Our blessed Lady's departure from the sepulchre, and return to Mount Sion

70 - Chapter LXX. A meditation on our blessed Lady's conversation with her devout companions

71 - Chapter LXXI. Our Lord Jesus descends into the Limbo of the Fathers

72 - Chapter LXXII. The glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus, and his appearance first to his mother

73 - Chapter LXXIII. The coming of the three Marys to the sepulchre, etc.

74 - Chapter LXXIV. Our Lord's appearance to the holy women

75 - Chapter LXXV. Our Lord's appearance to Joseph, to James the less, and to Peter

76 - Chapter LXXVI. Christ returns to the holy Fathers after his resurrection

77 - Chapter LXXVII. Christ appears to the two disciples going to Emmaus

78 - Chapter LXXVIII. Our Lord appears to the disciples who were shut up on the day of the resurrection

79 - Chapter LXXIX. Our Lord appears to the disciples on the octave of Easter, when St. Thomas was with them

80 - Chapter LXXX. Our Lord appears to his disciples in Galilee

81 - Chapter LXXXI. He appears to them again near the sea of Tiberias

82 - Chapter LXXXII. Our Lord appears to more than five hundred disciples together; some remarks relating to his apparitions in general

83 - Chapter LXXXIII. The glorious ascension of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

84 - Chapter LXXXIV. The coming of the Holy Ghost

85 - Appendix. Rhythmical Prayer to the Sacred Members of Jesus hanging upon the Cross. By St. Bernard