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Face of Catholic Saint Thomas Aquinas recreated from skull analysis
Behold the face of Thomas Aquinas-"Beware the man of a single book"-as recreated from a computer-assisted analysis of his ...
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Face of a Saint: Thomas Aquinas’ Appearance Revealed After 750 Years
Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its first tour of ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
(THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes. We were in luck, the porter said: It was a ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road ...