Thomas Aquinas

===Canonization===
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[[File:Andrea di Bonaiuto. Santa Maria Novella 1366-7 fresco 0001.jpg|thumb|right|''Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas'', {{lang|la|Doctor Angelicus}}, with saints and angels, [[Andrea di Bonaiuto]], 1366. [[Basilica of Santa Maria Novella]], fresco.]]
[[File:Nef-jacobins-toulouse.jpg|thumb|left|The remains of Thomas Aquinas are buried in the [[Church of the Jacobins]] in [[Toulouse]].]]

By the 1300s, however, Thomas's theology had begun its rise to prestige. In the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' (completed c. 1321), [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] sees the glorified soul of Thomas in the Heaven of the Sun with the other great exemplars of religious wisdom.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Dante |title=Divine Comedy |title-link=Divine Comedy |chapter=''Parad''. x. 99 |author-link=Dante Alighieri |access-date=17 January 2010 |chapter-url=http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.php3?display?Enface?Paradiso?10???148?1???0??1?1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726001218/http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.php3?display%3FEnface%3FParadiso%3F10%3F%3F%3F148%3F1%3F%3F%3F0%3F%3F1%3F1 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |via=Divinecomedy.org}}</ref> [[Dante]] asserts that Thomas died by poisoning, on the order of [[Charles of Anjou]];<ref>{{Cite book |author=Dante Alighieri |title=Divine Comedy |chapter=''Purg''. xx. 69 |access-date=17 January 2010 |chapter-url=http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.php3?display?Enface?Purgatorio?20???151?1???0??1?1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726001228/http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.php3?display%3FEnface%3FPurgatorio%3F20%3F%3F%3F151%3F1%3F%3F%3F0%3F%3F1%3F1 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |via=Divinecomedy.org}}</ref> Villani cites this belief,<ref>Villani (ix. 218)</ref> and the ''[[Anonimo Fiorentino]]'' describes the crime and its motive. But the historian [[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]] reproduces the account made by one of Thomas's friends, and this version of the story gives no hint of foul play.<ref name="britannica-250">{{EB1911|wstitle=Thomas Aquinas|volume=2|last1=Lindsay|first1=Thomas Martin|author1-link=Thomas Martin Lindsay|last2=Mitchell|first2=John Malcolm|author2-link=|pages=250–252|short=1}}</ref>

When the [[devil's advocate]] at his [[canonization]] process objected that there were no [[miracle]]s, one of the cardinals answered, "{{lang|la|Tot miraculis, quot articulis}}"—"there are as many miracles (in his life) as articles (in his [[Summa Theologica|''Summa'']])".<ref name="Mullady" /> Fifty years after Thomas's death, on 18 July 1323, [[Pope John XXII]], seated in [[Avignon]], pronounced Thomas a [[saint]].{{sfn|Hampden|1848|p=54}}

A monastery at Naples, near [[Naples Cathedral]], shows a cell in which he supposedly lived.<ref name="britannica-250" /> His remains were translated from Fossanova to the [[Church of the Jacobins]] in [[Toulouse]] on 28 January 1369. Between 1789 and 1974, they were held in the [[Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse|Basilica of Saint-Sernin]]. In 1974, they were returned to the Church of the Jacobins, where they have remained ever since.

When he was canonized, his feast day was inserted in the [[General Roman Calendar]] for celebration on 7 March, the day of his death. Since this date commonly falls within [[Lent]], the [[Mysterii Paschalis|1969 revision of the calendar]] moved his [[memorial (liturgy)|memorial]] to 28 January, the date of the translation of his relics to [[Church of the Jacobins]], [[Toulouse]].<ref>''Calendarium Romanum'' Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969, p. 86</ref><ref>''Liturgy of the Hours'' Volume III, Proper of Saints, 28 January.</ref>

Thomas Aquinas is honored with a [[feast day]] in some churches of the [[Anglican Communion]] with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]] on 28 January.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Calendar |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=The Church of England |language=en}}</ref>

The Catholic Church honours Thomas Aquinas as a [[saint]] and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. In modern times, under papal directives, the study of his works was long used as a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those in religious formation and for other students of the sacred disciplines (philosophy, Catholic theology, church history, liturgy, and [[canon law (Catholic Church)|canon law]]).<ref>Code of [[Canon Law]], Can. 252, §3 {{cite web |url= https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PW.HTM |title=Code of Canon Law |website=vatican.va |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110508022209/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PW.HTM |archive-date=8 May 2011 |access-date=22 March 2011}}</ref>