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SUMMARY:Saint Albert the Great
DESCRIPTION:Image: Saint Albert the Great | Vincenzo Onofri | photo by sailko\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Albert the Great\nSaint of the Day for November 15\n(1206 – November 15\, 1280)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nSaint Albert the Great’s Story\nAlbert the Great was a 13th-century German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam. \nStudents of philosophy know him as the master of Thomas Aquinas. Albert’s attempt to understand Aristotle’s writings established the climate in which Thomas Aquinas developed his synthesis of Greek wisdom and Christian theology. But Albert deserves recognition on his own merits as a curious\, honest\, and diligent scholar. \nHe was the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank. He was educated in the liberal arts. Despite fierce family opposition\, he entered the Dominican novitiate. \nHis boundless interests prompted him to write a compendium of all knowledge: natural science\, logic\, rhetoric\, mathematics\, astronomy\, ethics\, economics\, politics\, and metaphysics. His explanation of learning took 20 years to complete. “Our intention\,” he said\, “is to make all the aforesaid parts of knowledge intelligible to the Latins.” \nHe achieved his goal while serving as an educator at Paris and Cologne\, as Dominican provincial\, and even as bishop of Regensburg for a short time. He defended the mendicant orders and preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia. \nAlbert\, a Doctor of the Church\, is the patron of scientists and philosophers. \n\nReflection\nAn information glut faces us Christians today in all branches of learning. One needs only to read current Catholic periodicals to experience the varied reactions to the findings of the social sciences\, for example\, in regard to Christian institutions\, Christian life-styles\, and Christian theology. Ultimately\, in canonizing Albert\, the Church seems to point to his openness to truth\, wherever it may be found\, as his claim to holiness. His characteristic curiosity prompted Albert to mine deeply for wisdom within a philosophy his Church warmed to with great difficulty. \n\nSaint Albert the Great is the Patron Saint of:\nMedical Technicians\nPhilosophers\nScientists \n\nAnother Saint of the Day for November 15 is Blessed Mary of the Passion.
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