Saint, priest, Dominican, theologian, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church

(Roccasecca, 1224 or 1225 – Fossanova, 7 marzo 1274)

Text by Father Tommaso Stancati OP; translated by Father Raymond Vandegrift OP

• The early years (1225-1248)
• Bachelor at Cologne (1248-1252)
• Bachelor of the Sentences then Master of Theology at Paris (1252-1259)
• Portrait of a Religious intellectual
• Return to Italy (1259-1261)
• Orvieto : a period of intense activity (1261-1265)
• Rome and the origins of the «Summa theologiae» (1265-1268)
• Second Parisian ministry (1268-1272)
• Last residence in Naples and his death (1272-1274)
• Condemnation and canonization
• Value of Thomas's thought and method
• Bibliography