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About St. Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274 · Feast January 28 · Priest / Doctor of the Church / Dominican
Italian Dominican theologian and philosopher (1225-1274), of the Counts of Aquino; entered the Dominicans against his family's intentions, studied at Paris and Cologne under St. Albert the Great. Master of the great theological synthesis of Aristotle and Christian doctrine; author of the "Summa Theologiae," "Summa contra Gentiles," biblical commentaries, and Eucharistic hymns. Doctor of the Church (1567), "Doctor Communis." Canonized 1323 by John XXII.
St. Thomas Aquinas is the patron saint of Catholic Schools, Students, Theologians, Philosophers and Academics.
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