31st Week of Ordinary Time C – Saturday – Blessed John Duns Scotus, OFM
Today we are remembering an extraordinary Franciscan figure in the history of the Order, and his name is Blessed John Duns Scotus. He is thus named because he was born in Duns, Scotland, and he entered the Franciscan Order, very likely at a young age. He was ordained a priest around 1291. He was born in 1266 and lived until 1308. He studied and later taught at Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris—three of Europe’s leading universities.