Codice albumGBB-F-006227

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The italian Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino ; c. 1225 ñ 1274). Portrait engraving from french anonymous, 1651, France. TOMMASO D'AQUINO was an Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis and Doctor Communis. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. Aquinas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, 3). The works for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. One of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered by many Catholics to be the Catholic Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. Consequently, many institutions of learning have been named after him. Engraving by Giuseppe Martelli (1928 ca)

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