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SUMMARY:Saint Thomas of Villanova
DESCRIPTION:Image: Santo Tomás de Villanueva | Francisco Camilo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Thomas of Villanova\nSaint of the Day for September 10\n(1488 – September 8\, 1555)\nClick to hear audio clip ►\nSaint Thomas of Villanova’s Story\nSaint Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname from the town where he was raised. He received a superior education at the University of Alcala and became a popular professor of philosophy there. \nAfter joining the Augustinian friars at Salamanca\, he was ordained and resumed his teaching–despite a continuing absentmindedness and poor memory. He became prior and then provincial of the friars\, sending the first Augustinians to the New World. He was nominated by the emperor to the archbishopric of Granada\, but refused. When the see again became vacant he was pressured to accept. The money his cathedral chapter gave him to furnish his house was given to a hospital instead. His explanation to them was that “our Lord will be better served by your money being spent on the poor in the hospital. What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture?” \nHe wore the same habit that he had received in the novitiate\, mending it himself. The canons and domestics were ashamed of him\, but they could not convince him to change. Several hundred poor came to Thomas’s door each morning and received a meal\, wine\, and money. When criticized because he was at times being taken advantage of\, he replied\, “If there are people who refuse to work\, that is for the governor and the police to deal with. My duty is to assist and relieve those who come to my door.” He took in orphans and paid his servants for every deserted child they brought to him. He encouraged the wealthy to imitate his example and be richer in mercy and charity than they were in earthly possessions. \nCriticized because he refused to be harsh or swift in correcting sinners\, he said\, “Let him (the complainer) inquire whether Saint Augustine and Saint John Chrysostom used anathemas and excommunication to stop the drunkenness and blasphemy which were so common among the people under their care.” \nAs he lay dying\, Thomas commanded that all the money he possessed be distributed to the poor. His material goods were to be given to the rector of his college. Mass was being celebrated in his presence when after Communion he breathed his last\, reciting the words: “Into your hands\, O Lord\, I commend my spirit.” \nThomas of Villanova was already called in his lifetime “the almsgiver” and “the father of the poor.” He was canonized in 1658. \n\nReflection\nThe absent-minded professor is a stock comic figure. Thomas of Villanova earned even more derisive laughs with his determined shabbiness and his willingness to let the poor who flocked to his door take advantage of him. He embarrassed his peers\, but Jesus was enormously pleased with him. We are often tempted to tend our image in others’ eyes without paying sufficient attention to how we look to Christ. Thomas still urges us to rethink our priorities. \n\nThe Liturgical Feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova is September 22.\n\nOther Saints of the Day for September 10 are Saint Pedro de Corpa and Companions.
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