A Wikipedia article on Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican friar and theologian whose Summa Theologica shaped Catholic scholastic thought. The article documents an episode recorded in his earliest biographies in which the crucified Christ is said to have spoken to him from an image, praising his writing, establishing the devotional vision tradition that later panels showing Aquinas aided or addressed by holy figures, such as museum-held works pairing him with saints, continue.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the Christ-crucifix vision tradition surrounding Aquinas, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue attribution and dating of this exact devotional panel. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Thomas Aquinas directly: "A Wikipedia article on Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican friar and theologian whose Summa Theologica shaped Catholic scholastic thought."
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