{
  "_meta": {
    "project": "Latin Prayer",
    "projectUrl": "https://latinprayer.org",
    "apiDocs": "https://latinprayer.org/llms.txt",
    "content": "Thomas Aquinas — feast January 28.",
    "saint": {
      "slug": "thomas-aquinas",
      "name": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "latinName": "Thomas de Aquino",
      "feastMonth": 1,
      "feastDay": 28,
      "feastLabel": "January 28",
      "epochLabel": "1225–1274, Italy and France",
      "summary": "Doctor Angelicus. Dominican friar whose *Summa Theologiae* synthesized Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy.",
      "imageUrl": null,
      "imageCredit": null,
      "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas",
      "commonsClass": "confessor-nonpont",
      "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/thomas-aquinas/",
      "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/thomas-aquinas.json"
    }
  },
  "slug": "thomas-aquinas",
  "name": "Thomas Aquinas",
  "latinName": "Thomas de Aquino",
  "feastMonth": 1,
  "feastDay": 28,
  "feastLabel": "January 28",
  "epochLabel": "1225–1274, Italy and France",
  "summary": "Doctor Angelicus. Dominican friar whose *Summa Theologiae* synthesized Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy.",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "imageCredit": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas",
  "commonsClass": "confessor-nonpont",
  "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/thomas-aquinas/",
  "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/thomas-aquinas.json",
  "bodyMarkdown": "Born to a noble family near Aquino in southern Italy, Thomas\nentered the Dominican Order against the strenuous opposition of\nhis family — who reportedly held him captive for over a year in\nthe family castle, hoping to dissuade him. He went on to study\nat Naples, Cologne (under Albertus Magnus), and Paris, where he\nspent most of his teaching career.\n\nHis *Summa Theologiae*, left unfinished at his death in 1274,\nattempts the most ambitious synthesis the Western Church has\never attempted: a complete account of God, creation, human\naction, Christ, and the sacraments, organized as questions and\narticles in scholastic form. He wrote the *Summa contra\nGentiles* for missionaries, and the office and hymns for the\nfeast of Corpus Christi (including *Pange Lingua* and *Adoro Te\nDevote*).\n\nOn 6 December 1273, after a mystical experience at Mass, he set\naside his pen and never wrote again. *Mihi videtur ut palea* —\n*it seems to me as straw,* he said, comparing his work to what\nhad been shown him.",
  "bodyHtml": "<p>Born to a noble family near Aquino in southern Italy, Thomas\nentered the Dominican Order against the strenuous opposition of\nhis family — who reportedly held him captive for over a year in\nthe family castle, hoping to dissuade him. He went on to study\nat Naples, Cologne (under Albertus Magnus), and Paris, where he\nspent most of his teaching career.</p>\n<p>His <em>Summa Theologiae</em>, left unfinished at his death in 1274,\nattempts the most ambitious synthesis the Western Church has\never attempted: a complete account of God, creation, human\naction, Christ, and the sacraments, organized as questions and\narticles in scholastic form. He wrote the <em>Summa contra\nGentiles</em> for missionaries, and the office and hymns for the\nfeast of Corpus Christi (including <em>Pange Lingua</em> and <em>Adoro Te\nDevote</em>).</p>\n<p>On 6 December 1273, after a mystical experience at Mass, he set\naside his pen and never wrote again. <em>Mihi videtur ut palea</em> —\n<em>it seems to me as straw,</em> he said, comparing his work to what\nhad been shown him.</p>"
}