Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.
Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its first tour of ...
Adapted from Archbishop's homily at USC's "Gold Mass" marking the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is one Catholic theologian, alongside St. Augustine of Hippo, who has continued to fascinate me. My admiration for them has grown so deep that I ...