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St. Albertus Magnus:
700th Anniversary of Death
Scott 677-678 (1980)
The Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Albertus Magnus, or Saint Albert the Great, on November 15, which is the anniversary of his death in 1280.
Albert (1200-1280) was a Swabian by birth from a noble family and later a Dominican friar and bishop. He was educated at Padua and taught at various locations including Cologne where St. Thomas Aquinas was his student.
Albert became a master at Paris, the center of theological studies, but he also continued to teach at Cologne. He was appointed bishop of Ratisbon in 1260, but, unsuccessful as an administrator, in 1262 resigned his see and devoted his full-time energies to teaching. Albertus took part in church councils at Lyons (1274) and Paris (1277).
St. Thomas Aquinas:
750th Anniversary of Death
Scott 1855 (2024)
Like Aquinas, Albert drew upon Aristotle’s philosophy in his theological and other writings. He was interested in the physical sciences – astronomy, chemistry geography, biology, physiology. He used reason and experimentation to verify conclusion. His main theological work was the
Summa Theologiae
, a commentary on the theological
Four Books of Sentences
of Peter the Lombard (ca. 1096-1160), a textbook used in priestly formation.
Peter Lombard:
Author of "Four Books of Sentences"
Scott 173 (1953)
Saint Albert the Great was beatified in 1622 and canonized in 1931 at which time Pius XI named him a Doctor of the Church and a patron of students of the natural sciences. He is referred to as the "Universal Doctor.”
REFERENCES:
David Farmer,
Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Dawn Marie Beutner,
Saints: Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year
Anonymous,
Vatican Notes
, Volume 29, Number 4, p. 4, 1981,
Albertus Magnus
Anonymous,
Vatican Notes
, Volume 29, Number 5, p. 4, 1981,
Albertus Magnus
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