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Italy: Tourists in Rome prefer the Mouth of Truth to St. Valentine's skull
The basilica of Santa Maria di Cosmedin, famous for the Mouth of Truth, houses a skull attributed to Saint Valentine, adorned ...
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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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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 ...
St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics.
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Revealed after 750 years: Face of saint whose teachings 'underpin the Christian faith' - after study shows his traumatic cause of death
Now the face of Aquinas, the patron saint of education, can be seen for the first time in 750 years, after scientists used his skull to rebuild his features. Cicero Moraes, lead author of the new ...
St. George woman accused of abusing 4-month-old infant
The infant was brought to a local hospital with a cut under her nose and skull fracture after she reportedly fell off a bed.
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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
(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 ...