St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274 Entrance to Monte Cassino Fortress of San Giovanni Demidoff Altarpiece Fossanova Abbey Aquinas Instructing a Group of Clerics Carlo Crivelli, 1476 By Jean Fouquet, C. 1450 Medieval University Ruins of Aquino Estate The Temptation of St. Thomas Bernardo Daddi, 1338 Quaestiones Disputatae, Clairvaux Abbey of Notre Dame, 1453 Roccasecca Tomb of St. Thomas Aquinas Albert the Great St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averroes Giovanni de Paolo, 1445 “All that I have written seems to me 1st Church built in Honor of St. Thomas, like straw compared to what has now Church of St. Thomas, The Glory of St. Thomas Aquinas been revealed to me.” Roccasecca, c. 1323 The Young Aquinas Gozzoli Benozza, C. 1468 c.1225 c. 1230 c. 1239-44 c. 1244 c. 1245-48 1252-56 1256 1256-59 1261-65 1265-68 1268-72 1273 1274 1323 1567 master master at - Summa Summa Contra Commentaries Commentaries on Questions On Truth Truth On Questions Commentary Commentary on the Sentences master master at Rome; begins writing - Summa Summa Theologiae Aquinas bornAquinas in Roccasecca Thomas Thomas dies at a Cistercian monastery (Fossanova) on his way to the Council of Lyon Begins his studies at Naples the University of Thomas Thomas is admitted to Theology of Master the degree of Thomas Aquinas is canonized Thomas Thomas Thomas Aquinas is proclaimed a Doctor of the Church Thomas Thomas becomes Conventual Lector in Orvieto; completes the Gentiles Aristotle Thomas begins his 2nd Regency 2nd his begins Thomas at Paris and begins his Paris begins and Regent the of Peterof Lombard Thomas Thomas sent to teach at the University of Paris as a composes his Bachelor of Sentences; Thomas Thomas has a vision in which is “straw”that allwriting his he sees Thomas Thomas is elevated to Regent Paris; composes Paris;composes Rejoins Rejoins order and begins study under Albert the Great— first in Paris, then in Cologne Joins Joins the Dominican Order against the wishes of his family. His family kidnaps him and holds him at Giovanni. San the Fortress of Sent to Monte Cassino under the care of the Benedictines.