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ST. THOMAS OF V1LLANOVA DISTRIBUTING ALMS Reproduced from the Original Munii» painted for the Augustinian Convent in Seville
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cCK omai ST. THOMAS was born in 1488, not at Villanova, as his name would indicate, but at Fuentellana, a village near Villanova (Villanueva) in Spain. He has been called Thomas of Villanova because of the custom of religious orders in Castile to name a person from the place where he received his early education. After his training at Villanova, he entered the University of Alcala at the age of six teen. At this celebrated university he received the master of arts and licentiate in theology and in 1514, at the age of twenty-six, he occupied the chair of arts, logic and theology in that university. His professional days were short, however, for in 1516 he sought entrance into the Augustinian Order at Salamanca. He professed his vows in 1517 and was ordained a priest in 1518. In the convent at Salamanca, he was given the class of Scholastic Philosophy and within a short time he received the added duty of preaching in many of the principal churches of Spain, among which was the church in Valladolid, the scat of the imperial Court and rcsi' dencc of the Emperor Charles V when on his visits from the Low Countries. It was in Valla- dolid that St. Thomas attracted the attention of the Emperor, who appointed him the Court preacher and one of his Councillors of State. St. Thomas rarely appeared at Court but his correspondence with the Emperor was voluminous. The Emperor highly valued the opinions of his learned preacher. In 1527 St. Thomas was elected Prior-Provincial of the Augustinians of Andalusia and Castile and in 1533 of Castile alone. While Prior- Provincial of Castile, one of his first acts was to send the first missionary Kind of Augustinians to America to establish houses of the Order in Mexico Although it was against his wishes, he was ordered by obedience to accept the bishopric of Valencia in 1544. His work in this See won him the titles of Father of the Poor, the Almsgiver and the Model of Bishops. Here we sec him as a true reformer and disciple of Christ. He fought against blo xlshed, divorce and immorality, abolished underground prisons, and rebuilt the general hospital of Valencia. He had the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated at early hours for the working classes, and he used his miraculous powers of healing the sick and the multiplication of food for them and for the poor. In the field of education he established two colleges, one for ecclesiastics and one for poor students. In 1555 he died after a short illness, just after finishing the celebration of Mass. After considering St. Thomas, the scholar, educator and reformer, it is not difficult to realize why the Augustinian forefathers in the United States dedicated their first province in the United States and their college to God under the patronage of St. Thomas. Through his zeal the Augus- ttnians first set foot in America, and after his example, the Augustinians avc continued to spread Christian learning by the particular means of educatton of the youth of America. ST THOMAS OF VILLANOVA DIVIDING HIS CLOTHES AMONG BEGGAR BOYS
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