{"id":467,"date":"2012-01-28T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2012\/01\/saint-thomas-aquinas-the-greatest-mind.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:08:11","slug":"saint-thomas-aquinas-the-greatest-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2012\/01\/saint-thomas-aquinas-the-greatest-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Saint Thomas Aquinas: the Greatest Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Today we remember one of the greatest minds who ever lived, Saint Thomas Aquinas. \u00a0Despite all his intellectual work and writing, towards the end of his life Saint Thomas had a mystical experience which led him to say, \u201cAll that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Roccasecca Italy, he was the nephew of the Count of Aquino. \u00a0His father envisioned him becoming the abbot of the nearby prestigious Benedictine Montecassino Abbey, but Thomas felt called elsewhere. \u00a0He shocked his family by not following this path, but by joining the new mendicant Dominican Order. \u00a0The family felt disgraced. \u00a0Thomas, rather than living comfortably at Montecassino\u00a0wielding\u00a0great spiritual and temporal power, would have to beg for his food, relying entirely on others for his\u00a0subsistence.<\/p>\n

The family must have been\u00a0pleasantly\u00a0surprised at how Thomas\u2019 life transpired. \u00a0Saint Thomas became a celebrated professor at the University of Paris. \u00a0Tensions arose as he introduced Aristotelian philosophy into the curriculum and a power struggle emerged between diocesan and religious priests at the university. \u00a0Recognized by the universal church for his great mind and heart, he was asked to compose the liturgy for Corpus Christi and died he in 1274 as he prepared to participate at the\u00a0Ecumenical\u00a0Council of Lyon, France.<\/p>\n

I have attended two institutions that bear his name, Aquinas High School in Augusta, Georgia, and The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. \u00a0Even though I barely became\u00a0acquainted\u00a0with Saint Thomas in high school, I certainly learned to appreciate his work in college and seminary.<\/p>\n

In 2009 I visited his hometown of Roccasecca high on a mountain overlooking Aquino and the Mediterranean Sea. \u00a0Below are some pictures.<\/p>\n

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Remains of the Castle of Roccasecca, where Saint Thomas was born<\/div>\n
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Village of Roccasecca<\/div>\n
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First church named after Saint Thomas, Roccasecca<\/div>\n
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House of the Count of Aquino, Aquino<\/div>\n
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Tomb of Saint Thomas, Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse, France<\/div>\n
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Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse<\/div>\n
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