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  Thomas (Apostle) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas is revered as a saint in both the Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is remembered each year on St Thomas Sunday, which is always one week after Easter.
The various denominations of modern Saint Thomas Christians ascribe their unwritten tradition to the end of the 2nd century and believe that Thomas landed at Kodungallur in AD 52 and founded the churches popularly known as 'Ezharappallikal', meaning Seven and Half churches.
Thomas is like the synoptic gospels in speaking of Jesus as human, as Origen noticed: "none of them clearly spoke of his divinity, as John does" (Commentary on John 1.6).
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 Thomas Aquinas, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He is the greatest figure of scholasticism, one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church, and founder of the system declared by Pope Leo XIII (in the encyclical Aeterni Patris, 1879) to be the official Catholic philosophy.
Thomas came of the ruling family of Aquino, was educated as a child at Monte Cassino, and later studied at Naples.
In art St. Thomas is usually associated with a sacramental cup (representing his devotion to the sacrament) or a dove (representing the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) or depicted with a sun on his breast.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas Aquinas
The style of St. Thomas is a medium between the rough expressiveness of some Scholastics and the fastidious elegance of John of Salisbury; it is remarkable for accuracy, brevity, and completeness.
Minds were formed in accordance with the principles of St. Thomas; he became the great master, exercising a world-wide influence on the opinions of men and on their writings; for even those who did not adopt all of his conclusions were obliged to give due consideration to his opinions.
From the prologue to the "Summa" it is clear that St. Thomas was opposed to all that was superfluous and confusing in Scholastic studies.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14663b.htm   (9682 words)

  
 Saint Thomas More | Catholic-Pages.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Saint Thomas More was born of Sir John and Agnes More on the 6th of February, 1478.
Thomas spent some fifteen months in the Tower, and two behaviors mark his time there: the quiet acceptance of his imprisonment, and the care and love he shewn his daughter Margaret.
Thomas was led to Tower Hill, where he jested the officials, prayed to the crowd for him, protested that he was dying for the Roman Catholic Church, and said his prayers and recited the Miserere before kissing the headsman.
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 Encyclopedia: Saint Thomas Christians
Saint Thomas Christians or Mar Thoma Khristianis (Malayalam  :മാ൪േതാമാ കൃിസ്തിയാനികള്) is a phrase commonly used to describe a variety of different peoples of India and its vicinity who have Syriac Christian connections tracing back to the earliest period of Christianity in India.
Thomas was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus.
Thomas Christians were considered high caste, along the Hindu tradition, with special privileges granted by the kings.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saint-Thomas-Christians   (426 words)

  
 Thomas Aquinas [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The writings of Thomas may be classified as, (1) exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical; (2) dogmatic, apologetic, and ethical; and (3) philosophical.
Concerning redemption, Thomas teaches that Christ is to be regarded as redeemer after his human nature but in such way that the human nature produces divine effects as organ of divinity.
At the same time Thomas distinguished the gratia sacramentalis from the gratia virtutum et donorum, in that the former in general perfects the essence and the powers of the soul, and the latter in particular brings to pass necessary spiritual effects for the Christian life.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/aquinas.htm   (3032 words)

  
 Saint Thomas Aquinas
Thomas was born in 1225 at Roccasecca, a hilltop castle from which the great Benedictine abbey of Montecassino is not quite visible, midway between Rome and Naples.
Thomas describes logic as dealing with "second intentions," that is, with relations which attach to concepts expressive of the natures of existent things, first intentions.
Thomas emphasizes those passages in the Aristotelian natural writings which speak of the order of determination, that is, of what considerations come first and are presupposed to those that come later.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/aquinas   (11428 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas Becket
He took "Thomas of London", as Becket was then most commonly called, for his chancellor, and in that office Thomas at the age of thirty-six became, with the possible exception of the justiciar, the most powerful subject in Henry's wide dominions.
Thomas seems all along to have suspected Henry of a design to strike at the independence of what the king regarded as a too powerful Church.
To their angry question, "Where is the traitor?" the saint boldly replied, "Here I am, no traitor, but archbishop and priest of God." They tried to drag him from the church, but were unable, and in the end they slew him where he stood, scattering his brains on the pavement.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14676a.htm   (2173 words)

  
 St. Thomas Becket
Thomas, now forty-four years old, rode to Canterbury and was first ordained priest by Walter, bishop of Rochester, and then on the octave of Pentecost was consecrated archbishop by the bishop of Winchester.
Thomas was now full of remorse for having weakened, thus setting a bad example to the bishops, but at the same time he did not wish to widen the breach between himself and the King.
The bishop of Winchester pleaded the archbishop's discharge.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/THOMBECK.htm   (4163 words)

  
 University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas is a Catholic, comprehensive university that fosters a tradition of service to the public and an energetic, thoughtful approach to the challenges of contemporary life.
Serving more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students, St. Thomas is a thriving academic community for the active mind...
The University of St. Thomas does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability in its programs and activities.
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 Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Aquinas
Thomas places side by side words of the New Testament affirming the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and texts from the Old Testament referring to the types and figures of the Eucharist (se Vaughan, op.
Thomas resolved to take what was true from the "unjust possessors", in order to press it into the service of revealed religion.
Thomas was opposed to all that was superfluous and confusing in Scholastic studies.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/stthomas.htm   (10211 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Thomas the Apostle
"Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came." He was the only disciple absent; on his return he heard what had happened but refused to believe it.
When Thomas saw and touched, why was he told: "You have blieved because you have seen me?" Because what he saw and what he believed were different things.
God cannot be seen by mortal man. Thomas saw a human being, whom he acknowledged to be God, and said: "My Lord and my God." Seeing, he believed ; looking at one who was true man, he cried out that this was God, the God he could not see.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintt07.htm   (557 words)

  
 Thomas a Becket, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He is called St. Thomas of Canterbury and occasionally St. Thomas of London.
Thomas à Becket’s death shocked the whole of the Christian world, and his tomb in Canterbury became an immediate shrine.
The popularity of the cult of St. Thomas continued through the Middle Ages; Canterbury’s preeminence as a place of pilgrimage (immortalized in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) continued until the shrine was destroyed, probably along with the martyr’s remains, under Henry VIII in 1538.
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 AllRefer.com - Saint Thomas (Early Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
The Syriac-rite Christians of Malabar, India, whose church was established by the 3d cent., claim St. Thomas as their founder.
Among the Pseudepigrapha are a Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Thomas.
In addition, a Gospel of Thomas was among the 4th-century Coptic books found at Nag Hammadi.
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274)
Saint Thomas Aquinas was a 13th century Dominican Friar, philosopher and theologian.
Saint Thomas was born in 1224 or 1225 to noble parents, being the youngest son of Landulf (descendent of the counts of Aquino) and Theodora, a noble woman of Naples.
He was canonized by Pope John XXII on 18 July 1323, and Pope Saint Pius V proclaimed Saint Thomas a Doctor of the Church in 1567.
www.aquinasonline.com /thombiog.html   (1057 words)

  
 Saint Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Norwegian musician, Thomas Hansen, better known as St.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Thomas   (106 words)

  
 Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Thomas Aquina
Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of the most famous saints of the Catholic Church.
Saint Thomas Aquinas was the son of the count of Aquino, who was allied to the kings of Sicily and Arragon.
His mother, determined to turn Thomas away from the Dominicans, instructed his brothers (who were both soldiers) to capture Thomas and confine him in the fortress of San Giovanni at Rocca Secca.
www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980101/SAINTS/STTHOM.HTM   (1730 words)

  
 Thomas.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thomas the Apostle challenged the story that the Lord was risen, and his unbelief brought froth a glowing testimony of the reality of the Resurrection.
A woman was sent to tempt him; but he drove her from the room with a burning brand from the fire; afterwards, angels came to gird him with the cincture of perpetual chastity.
Thomas Aquinas is a Doctor of the Church and is honored as the patron of Catholic Schools.
www.op.org /domcentral/people/vocations/Thomas.htm   (597 words)

  
 The Life of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Thomas More was born in Milk Street, London on February 7, 1478, son Sir John More, a prominent judge.
Nevertheless, after the fall of Thomas Wolsey in 1529, More became Lord Chancellor, the first layman yet to hold the post.
His final words on the scaffold were: "The King's good servant, but God's First." More was beatified in 1886 and canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1935.
www.luminarium.org /renlit/morebio.htm   (802 words)

  
 St. Thomas Home Page
St. Thomas Catholic School was founded in 1903 by the Sisters of Divine Providence.
Thomas School offers a tradition of Academic excellence with firm and loving discipline.
Thomas School values low class size, with an average student teacher ratio (including home room teachers only) of 17 to one.
www.sttschool.org   (162 words)

  
 Saint Thomas on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Saint Thomas Academy and the University of St. Thomas to Break Ground for New Saint Thomas Ice Arena; Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 1:30 p.m.
CHARLOTTE, NC -- Panthers' wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad is stripped of a pass by Saints' Fred Thomas during the first quarter of their game on Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2003.
Sharon Thomas and her dog Holly visit her 12-acre parcel of land at All Saints Landing, near Conway, South Carolina.
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, sometimes called the Angelic Doctor and the Prince of Scholastics (1225-74), Italian philosopher and theologian, whose works have made him the most important figure in Scholastic philosophy and one of the leading Roman Catholic theologians.
Aquinas was born of a noble family in Roccasecca, near Aquino, and was educated at the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino and at the University of Naples.
Thomas was an extremely prolific author, and about 80 works are ascribed to him.
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 Saint Thomas on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Univ. of the Virgin Islands are on Saint Thomas.
Cyril Thomas présentant sa ceinture de champion d'Europe des poids plume, en mars à Saint-Quentin Le Français Cyril Thomas.
Cyril Thomas présentant sa ceinture de champion d'Europe des poids plume, en mars 2003, à Saint-Quentin Cyril Thomas défie.
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 Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Commentary by Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Epistle to the Colossians.
Commentary by Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
E-texts of Chesterton's Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox are available as html, plain text, a zipped file, and pdf.
www.home.duq.edu /~bonin/thomasbibliography.html   (6750 words)

  
 Welcome to Saint Thomas Hospital
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Saint Thomas Hospital has again been honored as one of the Solucient 100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals.
Saint Thomas Heart Institute would enjoy hearing about it.
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Thomas More
A man things that many are praising him, and talking of him alone, and yet they spend but a very small part of the day thinking of him, being occupied with things of their own.
- Saint Thomas More Although I know well, Margaret, that because of my past wickedness I deserve to be abandoned by God, I cannot but trust in his merciful goodness.
I shall remember how Saint Peter at a blast of wind began to sink because of his lack of faith, and I shall do as he did: call upon Christ and pray to him for help.
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas --  Encyclopædia Britannica
By papal decree in 1941, he was declared the patron saint of all who cultivate the natural sciences.
He believed that the truths of faith and science could coexist, and he demonstrated this by separating the path to knowledge by revelation and faith from the way of philosophy and science.
The Roman Catholic church regards St. Thomas Aquinas as its greatest theologian and philosopher.
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 Saint Thomas - Children Of The New Brigade
I saw smiles everywhere in the audience, and they were moving and dancing to my new songs, I was moved, and finally, Saint Thomas is back on the right track again.
The reason why I am really sad right now, is that there seems to be no or very few fans of Saint Thomas left at all.
You can contact Saint Thomas directly via e-mail at newbrigade@hotmail.com.
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 Saint Thomas implementing nurse shift-bidding system - 2005-08-16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Saint Thomas Health Services is implementing an online shift bidding system that will allow staff to apply for various work shifts throughout its five-hospital system.
Saint Thomas, which is owned by St. Louis-based Ascension Health, believes the system will boost nursing job satisfaction and retention and reduce the administrative burden on managers.
Saint Thomas is a five-hospital system that includes Baptist and Saint Thomas Hospitals in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville and DeKalb Hospital in Smithville.
www.bizjournals.com /nashville/stories/2005/08/15/daily17.html   (548 words)

  
 Saint Thomas
So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them.
Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands.
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