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St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas, from the Demidoff Altarpiece, tempera on poplar by Carlo Crivelli, 1476; in the National Gallery, London.
In 1259, St. Thomas Aquinas was appointed as a theological adviser and lecturer to the papal Curia, which was then considered the center of Western humanism.1
During his time serving the Curia, he worked under several popes:
* He spent two years at Anagni toward the end of the reign of Pope Alexander IV.1
* He spent four years at Orvieto serving Pope Urban IV.1
* From 1265 to 1267, he taught at the convent of Santa Sabina in Rome.1
* At the request of Pope Clement IV, he later joined the papal Curia in Viterbo.1