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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 spent the majority of his childhood at the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy. His parents placed him there as a prospective monk when he was approximately five years old, and he remained there for nine years before continuing his education at the University of Naples.1