SAINTS - THOMAS AQUINAS Saint Thomas Aquinas [c. 1225-74] was born near Aquino, in Italy, and after a thorough education in the Benedictine foundation at Monte Cassino, and at Naples University, he became a Dominican friar, in 1244. He began his important teaching career in Paris, in 1252, where he laid the foundations for countering the heretical Aristotelianism being disseminated by the Arabic Schools, then still influential in Naples and Spain (especially in Toledo). His most important work is the Summa Theologia, which is a many-volumed summary of his own view on the Catholic Faith. Pro
SAINTS - THOMAS AQUINAS Saint Thomas Aquinas [c. 1225-74] was born near Aquino, in Italy, and after a thorough education in the Benedictine foundation at Monte Cassino, and at Naples University, he became a Dominican friar, in 1244. He began his important teaching career in Paris, in 1252, where he laid the foundations for countering the heretical Aristotelianism being disseminated by the Arabic Schools, then still influential in Naples and Spain (especially in Toledo). His most important work is the Summa Theologia, which is a many-volumed summary of his own view on the Catholic Faith. Process print, from Alban Butler's The Lives of The Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principles Saints, edition of circa 1928.
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