Born in a village in what is now Italy nearly 800 years ago, he grew up to become one of Western civilization’s most revered thinkers. Now St. Thomas Aquinas, the intellectual and spiritual ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas, renowned as a Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, ... Born in 1225, he authored the seminal Summa Theologiae and liturgical hymns for Corpus Christi, ...

St. Albert the Great, the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, ... Born around 1206 and joining the Order of Preachers in 1223, Albert quickly became a master of almost every academic subject.

The skull of Saint Thomas Aquinas still draws a crowd, almost 800 years after his birth. ... of which Aquinas, who was born in Italy and worked much of his life in Paris, ...