Thomas Aquinas

THE HOLY MERIT

• Enter order of the Friars
• Become a great learner
• Achieve unequaled sanctity

Thomas' Life

• Born in Roccasecca, Italy
• Had eight siblings
• Decendant of Frederick I and Henry VI
• Benedictine Monks
• "What is God?"

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Convert

• At age 5 Thomas became a Catholic
• Who is actually God?
• Benedictine Monks made him Holier

THE DUMB OX

• greatest theologian
• Brilliant in school
• "Stupid" around his friends

Intellectual Proofs

• Unmoved Mover
• First Cause
• Everything Comes from Something
• Supreme Model
• Grand Designer

Thomas Begins to Suffer

• Writings begin to lose quality.
• "Thou hast written well of me"
• "What reward wilt thou have"
• "None other than thyself Lord"

THOMAS' DEATH

• Fell ill at Cistercian Monastery
• "This is my rest forever and ever."
• Feast day- January 28th