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Face of Catholic Saint Thomas Aquinas recreated from skull analysis
Behold the face of Thomas Aquinas-"Beware the man of a single book"-as recreated from a computer-assisted analysis of his skull. The Italian friar, who lived 750 years ago, was imaged by Brazilian ...
St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics.
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...