St. Thomas Aquinas "Believing is an act of the intellect
assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by
God through grace." January 28 is the Feast of Saint Thomas
Aquinas, widely considered the greatest theologian and
philosopher of the Catholic Church. His works systematized the
Truth of the Catholic Church and combined it with Greek wisdom
and scholarship methods. In the several hundred years since
Thomas, one of the most influential among the Church’s saints,
preached, taught, and defended the Faith, his ideas and writings
have become seminal to the Church. Early Life of St. Thomas
Aquinas Thomas, son of Count Landulf of Aquino, was born 1225 in
a family castle in Lombardy, near Naples. His family was related
to Emperors Henry VI and Frederick II and the kings of France,
Aragon, and Castile. At the age of five, Thomas’s education
began when he was sent to receive training from the Benedictine
monks of Monte Cassino. Even at this age, Thomas was meditative
and prayerful. Around the year 1236