Thomas aquinas

Saint of the Day - 28 January - St Thomas Aquinas O.P. (1225-1274 aged 49 ) Doctor angelicus (Angelic Doctor) and Doctor communis (Common Doctor). Priest, Religious, Master Theologian, Philosopher, Write, Teacher, Jurist. Also known as: The Angelic Doctor/Doctor Angelicus, Common Doctor/Doctor Communis. The Great Synthesiser, The Dumb Ox, The Universal Teacher. Patron of Academics,…

St Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

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"Above all the Scholastic Doctors towers Thomas Aquinas, prince and master of them all, who, as Cajetan observes, "because he profoundly revered the holy Doctors who preceded him inherited in a way the intellect of all, intellectum omnium quodammodo sortitus est." Thomas gathered their doctrines together, as if they were the scattered members of the same body, and knitted them into one whole. He assembled them in an admirable order, and so increased them with valuable additions that he is…

St Thomas was "called the Doctor Angelicus, perhaps because of his virtues, in particular the loftiness of his thought and purity of life", said Pope Benedict XVI. My sermon for St Thomas' feast day can be read here. In this painting in San Domenico, Bologna, St Thomas is taught by angels to contemplate the truth of the Eucharist.

Thomas Aquinas- (1225-1274) was a philosopher, theologian, and monk who helped bridge the gap between medieval faith and the philosopher of reason promoted by Greek philosophy.