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Bio
Birth date: January 28, 1225
Birth location: Roccasecca, Italy
Death date: March 7, 1274
Death location: Fossanova Abbey (near Scalo, Italy)
Feast Day:
• January 28 (the date his remains were move to Toulouse)
• Formerly March 7 (the date he died), changed by the Catholic Church for his feast day not to fall during the catholic religious celebration of Lent.
Venerated here
saint
Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274), an Italian Dominican friar, priest, theologian and philosopher.[1] He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy, and is the father of the school of thought known as Thomism.[1]
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