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Thomas Aquinas

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225-1274) · Italy · Academics · Died at 49

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A 13th-century friar who bent Aristotle to the service of Christian doctrine and built a logical framework for proving God's existence that still shapes how the Catholic Church thinks.

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20267.9×Feast day, 28 January.28 January 2026, 7.9 times the usual readers on 28 January 2026See the moment1274Died7 March 12741273“A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”In their wordsCommentary on the Psalms (c. 1273), Introduction

1270“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”In their wordsQuaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270)

“It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.”In their wordsQuaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270)

“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.”In their wordsCommentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270-1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88

1267“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”In their wordsOpuscule II, De Regno (On Kingship, c. 1267)

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  1. A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

    1273, Commentary on the Psalms (c. 1273), Introduction, Own words

  2. Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

    1270, Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270), Own words

  3. It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

    1270, Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270), Own words

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Born around 1225 in Italy, Thomas joined the Dominican order and spent his life trying to reconcile ancient Greek philosophy with Christian faith. Between 1256 and 1274 he wrote the Disputed Questions on Truth, the Summa contra Gentiles, and began the Summa Theologica - an unfinished but massive guide to Catholic theology that introduced his Five Ways of proving God and laid out a system of virtue ethics drawn partly from Aristotle. He also composed Eucharistic hymns still used in liturgy. He died on 7 March 1274, leaving behind Thomism, a school of thought that dominated medieval philosophy and earned him the title Doctor Angelicus. The Church named him one of its 38 Doctors, and his work continues to influence modern ethics, aesthetics, and cognitive theory.

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Italy
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1225 to 1274 · aged 49

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