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St. Thomas Aquinas — The Catholic Genius His Own Family Tried to Stop
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast about the real lives of the saints, host John O'Connor tells the story of St. Thomas Aquinas — and it is nothing like what you learned in school.
His own brothers kidnapped him. His family locked him in a tower for a year to stop him from becoming a friar. They sent a woman into his cell to break his vows. And none of it worked.
The man who came out the other side wrote one of the most influential works in the history of Western thought — and then stopped writing completely after a single mystical experience, calling everything he had…
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