Biographical note

Surnamed the "Angelic Doctor." Born at Roccasecca, near Aquino, Naples, and educated as an oblate by the Benedictines at Montecassino, he joined the then recently founded Dominicans, studied and received the doctorate of theology at the university of Paris, and thenceforward taught that subject at Paris (1252-1260), Orvieto (1261-1264), Rome (1265-1267), Viterbo (1268), Paris (1269-1271) and Naples (1272-1274). He died at Fossanova, near Rome, on his way to the council of Lyons. Canonized in 1323 and declared Doctor of the Church in 1567 and patron saint of Catholic universities and centers of study in 1880.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)

Alternate names

Tommaso d'Aquino

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