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Life and teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Saint Thomas Aquinas : Biography

The life of Thomas Aquinas offers many interesting insights into the world of the High Middle Ages. He was born into a family of the south Italian nobility and was through his mother Countess Theadora of Theate related to the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Holy Roman emperors. He was probably born early in 1225 at his father's castle of Roccasecca in the kingdom of Naples, his father being Count Landulf. Landulf's brother, Sinibald, was abbot of the original Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, and the family intended Thomas to follow his uncle into that position; this would have been a normal career-path for a younger son of the nobility.

  
  
  


Saint Thomas Aquinas : Bibliography

- Commentaire sur Aristote. ; 1265-1273
- Commentaire sur les Sentences" de Pierre Lombard. ;1252-1257.
- L' être et l' essence. ; vers 1255.
- Du gouvernement royal.
- Questions diputées. ; 1271
- Quodlibet. ; 1258.
- Somme de la foi catholique contre les Gentils. ; 1255-1264.
- Somme théologique. ; 1266-1264.
- De l' unité de l' esprit. ; 1269.

Saint Thomas Aquinas : Portraits

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Saint Thomas Aquinas par Fra Angelica
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RICCI Sebastiano, St Pius, St Thomas of Aquino and St Peter Martyr, 1730-33,oil on canvas, 343 x 169 cm, S. Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
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GOZZOLI Benozzo, Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas, 1471, Tempera on panel, 230 x 102 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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LOTTO Lorenzo, Sts Thomas Aquinas, 1508, Oil on wood, 155 x 67 cm, Pinacoteca Comunale, Recanati
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Saint Thomas Aquinas : Links

Christianity, Angela of Foligno, Dante Alighieri, Fénélon, François De Sales, Henri Le Saux, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Mother Teresa, Nicholas of Cusa, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Thomas Aquinas, etc.

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