HAPPY FEAST DAY ST. THOMAS!

Today, the 28th day of January, is a special day for every member of the Thomasian community.
Why?
Well, the reason is that it is the Feast Day of our patron saint, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The patron saint was born in the castle of Rocca Secca at around the years 1224 or 1225 to his loving parents, Landulfo d' Aquino and Theodora da Theate.
He entered the monastery of Monte Cassino. In 1239, he was sent to the University of Naples to study for five years the liberal arts and sciences. He joined the Order of Friar Preachers or the Dominicans in late April of 1244.
His family was then indignantly mad because they wanted him to succeed his relative, Landulfo Sinibaldo as Abbot of Montecassino who is in the Benedictine Order. He was abducted by his own brother and locked him up in their family castle in Montesangiovanni but he was later released.
In 1245, he went to Paris for his novitiate and theological studies finishing them in Cologne in 1252 under St. Albert the Great. He was ordained priest in Cologne as well.
In spring of 1256, St. Thomas occupied the regent master's chair. He stepped down from his position in 1259 to go to Naples.
He spent his retirement years serving as lector in Orvieto, finishing the Summa Contra Gentiles and continuing to write his unfinished masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae.
Problems pursued in Paris and he was forced to occupy the regent master's chair in the Dominican Covenant until April of 1272.
He then went to Florence and Naples, at which in the latter, he served as regent of theology. His literary career ceased in the morning of the 6th of December in 1273.
Pope Gregory X requested for Saint Thomas to Attend the Council of Lyons. Along the journey, Thomas injured his head and eventually died in the Wednesday morning of March 7, 1274. The date of his burial was on the 28th of January, 1369 in Tolouse. This date also became the liturgical feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
He was proclaimed as Doctor of the Universal Church on April 11, 1567 by the Dominican Pope, St.Pius V and Patron of Catholic Schools on August 4, 1880 by Pope Leo XIII.

There! I hope you gained some knowledge about our very own patron, St. Thomas Aquinas!