Ite ad Thomam Tours: The Life and Work of St. Thomas, an Overview

Ite ad Thomam Tours: The Life and Work of St. Thomas, an Overview

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Important Places in the Life of St. Thomas Aquinas:

Formative Years:

1225-30: Birth and childhood in Roccasecca.
1230-39: Benedictine oblate at Montecassino.
1239-44: Education at Naples, where he takes the Dominican habit.
1244: Intercepted by family at Acquapendente, imprisoned in Monte San Giovanni and later Roccasecca.
1245-48: Studies under St. Albert at Paris.
1248-52: Works for St. Albert as Bachelor in Cologne.

Productive Years:

1252-56: Lectured as bachelor on the Sentences at Paris.
1256-59: Master in Sacra Pagina at Paris.
1259-61: Dominican Houses of Studies, Naples.
1261-65: Orvieto.
1265-68: Sancta Sabina, Rome.
1268-72: Master of Theology at Paris.

Transitus into Heaven:

1272-73: Dominican House of Studies, Naples; vision/"straw".
1274: Sojourn towards Lyons, accident at Teano, stays at Maenza, death in Fossanova.

1323: Canonization in Avignon.
1369: Translation of relics to Toulouse.
1567: Named doctor of the Church in Rome.


Chronological/Geographical Table of Aquinas' Works 
From the Marietti edition of the Expositio in Libros Peri hermeneias et Posteriorum (with places added):

NB.  For more biographical details, and a more updated chronology of his works, see Jean Pierre Torrel, St Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 1.

Ite ad Thomam Tours: St. John Lateran, Rome's Cathedral

Ite ad Thomam Tours: St. John Lateran, Rome's Cathedral

Which is the Pope's Cathedral?  It's not St. Peters Basilica!  Rather, it is St. John Lateran, which is, as the inscription on its façade says, the omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput ("The mother and head of the churches of the city and of the world").  Learn about the history and art of Rome's Cathedral Church by reading the Sacred Destinations article, and then take a self-guided tour through the streets surrounding the church by using the Google Maps page below!

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Ite ad Thomam Tours: Santa Sabina, Aventine Hill, Rome

Ite ad Thomam Tours: Santa Sabina, Aventine Hill, Rome

Take a look at the surroundings of the Santa Sabina complex (Basilica and Dominican Convent), where St. Thomas Aquinas began to write his Summa theologiae, including the adjacent orange grove originally planted by St. Catherine of Siena.

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Want to learn more? Visit the Sacred Destinations website.


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