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Saint Thomas Aquinas A Saint

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Saint Thomas Aquinas was a great saint who was born in 1225, Roccasecca Italy and died on March 7, 1274 in Fossanova Abbey, Italy. He was an Italian Dominican friar, a catholic priest, doctor of the church a great influential philosopher and theologian. Saint Thomas was a great saint and inspiration and originally was supposed to take place in a monastery where he would work. Instead saint Thomas decided to something else when he went into school.

Saint Thomas went to the school of the Monte Cassino to learn everything that he needed to know. Through his time there, he decided that it would be best if were to join the Dominican Order. The Dominican Order is a mendicant religious order that would help saint Thomas become a doctor of the church. They would help him to become a priest and learn to believe in God in all ways that he could. Although Thomas was totally on board with becoming part of the Dominican Order there were others that were not happy for him to be part of this order. Thomas Aquinas’s parents were Theodora Rossi, his mother, and Landulf of Aquino, his father. Though Thomas was ready for him to be part of the Dominican Order his parents and his family wanted him to go another direction. His family did not want him to go so much so that they had kept him captive in a castle for a whole entire year before they finally released him. The only reason that they had let him go was because they had now known that he was not able to be persuaded. So with that he

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