The Passing of
Thomas Aquinas
Today marks the anniversary of
the death, in 1274, of St. Thomas Aquinas (Tommaso d’ Aquino), the brilliant
Dominican Friar whose whole life’s work constitutes the basis of Thomistic Theology.
A student and protégé of St.
Albert the Great (Albert Magnus), he is best known for his monumental (although
it his death unfinished) Summa Theologica.
Thomas was canonized a Saint of
the Catholic Church and holds the title of the Angelic Doctor.
As Pope Leo XIII wrote: “With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching." (Aeterni Patris, par. 17).
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