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Therese Cory, Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies, University of Notre Dame

Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Peter confute heretics in a 1369 fresco by Andrea Bonaiuto in Florence's Spanish Chapel. Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images
A medieval painting, with lots of black, red and gold, showing men in robes below a heavenly figure surrounded by the rays of light.
‘The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ by Benozzo Gozzoli. Louvre Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks.

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