Saint Thomas Aquinas
A Dominican friar and the foremost theologian of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas set out to show that faith and reason are not enemies, marshalling the philosophy of Aristotle in the service of Christian doctrine. His great unfinished Summa Theologiae remains the most influential work of Catholic theology, and the Church later named him the “Angelic Doctor.” He was also a poet of the Eucharist, composing the liturgy of Corpus Christi, and he died in 1274 on his way to the Second Council of Lyon.
“O God, who hast glorified thy Church by the wondrous learning of the blessed Confessor Thomas, and hast made it fruitful by his holy deeds: grant unto us, we beseech thee; that we may understand those things which he taught and follow that which he did.”
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