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YOU MAY NOT KNOW.. By R. ROSEMAN, B. W. ALLAN,

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St. Albert the Great

St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274

On December 16,193I. Pope created Albert the Great Saint and Docfor of the Church.

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MINDS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES WITH T H E UNRIVALED CATHOLICITY OF HIS KNOWLEDGE THAT

PREACHER' H e "sfudied and described the entire cosmos GIAN, PHILOSOPHER, from ifs stars to its stones." ONE-TIME BISHOP OF THEY CONFERRED RATISBON, TEACHER OF THOMAS AQUINAS, ON HIM A DOCTORATE SUCH AS NO OTHER AND PROBABLY THE GREATEST SCIEN- MAN EVER RECEIVED . NOT IN ONE TIFIC INVESTIGATOR OF THE MIDDLE BRANCH OF LEARNING ONLY OR ANOTHER AGES, WHOSE WRITINGS CONSTITUTE THE . . . BUT IN ALL. WITH ONE CONSENT MOST COLOSSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA EVER UN- THEY ACCLAIMED HIM, AND FOR ALL DERTAKEN AND COMPLETED BY A SINGLE T I M E H E REMAINS, T H E UNIVERSAL PERSON, "SO IMPRESSED THE BRILLIANT DOCTORI" 88

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