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Thomas Aquinas — Dominican, master of theology at Paris, author of the Summa, c. 1225–1274
Son of a count of the kingdom of Sicily, a Dominican against the will of his family who locked him a year in a castle, a pupil of Albert the Great at Cologne, he came to teach at Paris in 1252, became master of theology there and wrote there part of the Summa, which gave faith the language of Aristotle. Dead on the road to the council of Lyon, he was proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1567. (Editorial synthesis)
Thomas Aquinas was born around 1225 (Julian calendar). (source: Larousse)
Thomas Aquinas died on 7 March 1274 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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