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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 died on March 7, 1274, at the Cistercian abbey of Fossanova, near Terracina, Italy. He had fallen ill while traveling to the second Council of Lyons after being summoned by Pope Gregory X.12