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I. Introduction*

St. Thomas of Aquino was born in the early 13^th century to a high noble family that counted as its relatives two Holy Roman Emperors and the kings of Aragon, Castile, and France.

Despite his heritage, St. Thomas chose the life of a teacher in the Dominican mendicant (begging) order instead of the high office planned by his family, whose members even detained him for more than a year to try to change his mind.

(In later life he would also turn down an archbishopric to continue his teaching work.) Living in an age when political loyalties and cultural differences were transcended by a common Faith and language of scholarship, St.

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