This Dumb Ox taught the whole Church
Because he was big and strong and sometimes slow to speak,
Thomas Aquinas's schoolmates called him the Dumb Ox. Not long
afterward, he came to be called Doctor (which means "teacher")
because he could actually understand complicated things quickly and
explain them well.
Which is what he loved to do, preaching often and writing in the
course of his lifetime no fewer than eighty-five works of
philosophy and theology books that changed the Church and the
world. Indeed, in 1320, less than fifty years after Thomas died,
Thomas's biographer said that "throughout the entire world Thomas's
teachings have spread among the faithful, and the whole Church is
instructed by his voice."
Today, the Church Herself calls Saint Thomas Aquinas the
Angelic Doctor ("the teacher who is like an angel"): pure, strong,
close to God, and truly a messenger of divine light.
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