St. Thomas Aquinas
was born into a family of the Lord of Aquino, who sent him to study at
the prestigious abbey of Monte Cassino, which belonged to Benedictines.
But Thomas soon left the abbey and joined in the newly established Domonician
University of Naples. His father, indignant at such behaviour, asked him
back home, but a year later he gave in and allowed Thomas to enter Order's
Napoletan abbey. In 1245 the Dominicans sent Thomas to the abbey St. James
in Paris. His master there was Albert of Swabia, known as Albert the Great,
famous theologian of his time. Thomas studied from him theology and philosophy.
In 1256-1260 he occupied the professorial position in Paris university,
then between 1265 and 1267 was professor of theology in Rome. Thomas ended
his life in the Cistercian abbey of Fossa Nuova, Pope Urban V had his remains
removed to Toulouse in 1369. Thomas was canonized in 1323 and made Doctor
of Church in 1567. His love for wisdom and chastity made him one of the
favourite characters of artists.
See: Domenico and David Ghirlandaio and Bartolomeo
di Giovanni. Madonna and
Child Enthroned with Two Angels, St.
Dionysius
the Aereopagite and St. Dominic, Pope Clement and St. Thomas Aquinas.
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