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"Almighty God,
in your providence you gave Saint Thomas to your Church
as a preacher of your wisdom and a model of holiness.
By his merits and example,
may we seek you in truth
and love you above all things.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen."

Today, 28 January, is the feast the great St Thomas Aquinas, who is sometimes called the Angelic Doctor. A good biography of the saint and his influence by Benedict XVI can be found here.

This is the altar dedicated to St Thomas in San Esteban, the Dominican priory church in Salamanca.

"The brothers ought to cultivate a genuine familiarity with [St Thomas Aquinas'] writings and thought..."

- from art.82 of the Constitutions of the Friars Preachers.

Today, 28 January, is the feast of St Thomas, and this relief sculpture of the saint is in Caleruega, Spain.

"Christ the king of glory be praised: through Thomas the light of the Church he filled the world with his teaching of grace" - Benedictus antiphon for the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, which is today.

This window is in St Dominic's priory church in Newcastle.

"From on high the fount of wisdom poured abundance on holy Thomas like a river of clear knowledge, and he poured out the grace he had received of unrestrained and highest skill,* and he watered the whole of holy Church.
His style was succinct, his eloquence pleasing; his judgment was lofty, firm and clear,* and he watered the whole of holy Church."

- Matins responsory for the feast of St Thomas Aquinas.

Detail from an embroidered chasuble in St Dominic's, Newcastle.

"The glory of blessed Thomas flashed forth in a divine prodigy as a wonderfully fragrant perfume flowed from his tomb; * shining with purity, he lived without guilt..."

- from a Matins responsory for the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, which is today.

This is the tomb of St Thomas, the great doctor the Church, humbly enshrined beneath an altar in the former medieval Dominican church called the Jacobin church in Toulouse. They were brought to this church on 28 January 1369, which is why his feast is now kept on this date.