Pianopoli - Patron Saint
Statue of St. Thomas Aquinas in the parish of Pianopoli
Parish of St. Thomas (Joe Faga photos)
Parish (photo-Joe Fagan 1980)
The Parish Pianopoli is much older than the City. In fact, the Parish Church was erected in 1764, when the territory was still part of the City of
Feroleto old. The territory of Pianopoli became an autonomous territory with its own municipality in 1861. The patron saint is St.
Thomas Aquinas. The source name is thimble to be connected to the ownership of Aquinas, who offered the land for the construction of the Church. This dates back to 1642 after the disastrous earthquake in the area.
all know the figure and work of S. Thomas Aquinas certainly his presence as a protector Pianopoli invokes the will of the ancients to follow the teaching and example of the illustrious Dominican priest. The feast of St.
Thomas Aquinas in Pianopoli is celebrated according to the traditional date of March 7, has no external splendor, and then the focus is exclusively on the religious aspects. We would like to emphasize the party, looking especially leisure time for study and through conferences explaining the teaching of the great theologian and philosopher and current His message today.
Altar of the Parish of Saint Thomas (photo-Joe Fagan 1966)
Patronage of Pianopoli March 7
S. Thomas, born in late 1225 by the Count of Aquino, in the castle of Roccasecca, at the age of 18 years, against the wishes of his father and even chased by the brothers who wanted to kidnap, entered the order of Preachers of St. Domenico. He completed his training in Cologne, the school of St. Albert the Great, and then to Paris. In the study as a student in Paris he became professor of philosophy and theology. He held the chair also in Orvieto, Rome and Napoli.Mite and quiet (in Paris they had nicknamed "the dumb ox"), obese or not, contemplative and prayerful, respectful of everyone and loved by all, Thomas was primarily an intellectual. Constantly immersed in his studies, easily lost track of time and place: during a voyage at sea is not even felt the terrible storm and the strong rolling of the ship tossed by the waves, So immersed in reading. But his lectures were not sterile and no end in themselves. His motto, "provided aliis trade" part to others the fruits of his reflection, resulted in a mass of books that the prodigious, if one remembers that he died young at anchor anni.Morì age of 48 because at the dawn of March 7, 1274, in the Cistercian monastery of Fossanova his way to the Council of Lyons, convened by B. Gregory X. His work is the most famous Summa Theologiae, clear design and precise, crystal clear, combined with an extraordinary capacity for synthesis. When John XXII enrolled him among the saints, in 1323, to those who objected that Thomas had not made great wonders neither in life nor after death, the pope replied with a famous phrase: "How many theological propositions he wrote, he did many miracles." The primacy of intelligence, the cornerstone of all theological and philosophical works of the Angelic Doctor (as it was named after the fifteenth century), was not resolved in an abstract intellectualism, an end in itself. Intelligence is conditioned with conditioning and love. "Intellectual light full of love love of true good, full of joy ...", so Dante, one of the Thomists, translates poetry in the Thomistic concept of intelligence-bliss ... The thought of St. Thomas was for centuries the basis of philosophical and theological seminary, and has experienced a remarkable revival in our own time by Leo XIII and Jacques Maritain. And perhaps most current, most summae that large, it is precisely the theological and pastoral Pamphlets and Brochures spiritual, still reprinted.
Author: Piero Bargellini
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