A report on Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar and priest, who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known within the scholastic tradition as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.
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Calendar of saints
1 linksTraditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
Traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
For example, saints Perpetua and Felicity died on 7 March, but this date was later assigned to St. Thomas Aquinas, allowing them only a commemoration (see Tridentine Calendar), so in 1908 they were moved one day earlier.
General Roman Calendar
2 linksLiturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use.
Liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use.
28 January: Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor of the Church – Memorial
Toulouse
3 linksPrefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
Prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
In 1369 pope Urban V attributed to the Dominican church of the Jacobins of Toulouse the bones of the famous Dominican theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas, perhaps to honor the city that had been the cradle of the Dominican order at the beginning of the previous century.
Peter Lombard
3 linksScholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of Four Books of Sentences which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he earned the accolade Magister Sententiarum.
Scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of Four Books of Sentences which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he earned the accolade Magister Sententiarum.
All the major medieval thinkers, from Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel, were influenced by it.
Jacques Maritain
4 linksFrench Catholic philosopher.
French Catholic philosopher.
An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Editio Leonina
4 linksThe Editio Leonina or Leonine Edition is the edition of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas originally sponsored by Pope Leo XIII in 1879.
Priesthood in the Catholic Church
1 linksOffice of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church.
Office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church.
Properly speaking, in Catholic theology, as expressed by Saint Thomas Aquinas, "Only Christ is the true priest, the others being only his ministers."
Santi Domenico e Sisto
2 linksOne of the titular churches in Rome, Italy in the care of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans.
One of the titular churches in Rome, Italy in the care of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans.
The two lower statues depict St. Thomas Aquinas and Saint Peter of Verona, were sculpted by Stefano Maderno.
Just price
1 linksTheory of ethics in economics that attempts to set standards of fairness in transactions.
Theory of ethics in economics that attempts to set standards of fairness in transactions.
With intellectual roots in ancient Greek philosophy, it was advanced by Thomas Aquinas based on an argument against usury, which in his time referred to the making of any rate of interest on loans.