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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.
St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1224 or 1225 in Roccasecca, located near Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily (modern-day Italy).1