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What was St. Albertus Magnus’s relationship with Thomas Aquinas?

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St. Albertus Magnus was a teacher and mentor to Thomas Aquinas, maintaining a close relationship despite some doctrinal differences. Aquinas was one of his chief disciples. Several years after Aquinas’s death in 1274, Albertus traveled to Paris to uphold the recently condemned good name and writings of his former student.