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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 at the Cistercian abbey of Fossanova, near Terracina, in the Papal States, on March 7, 1274. He had been traveling to the second Council of Lyons after being summoned by Pope Gregory X when he was stricken by an illness that led to his death.12