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Saint Albert the Great.
Bishop.
Confessor.
Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 15 November.
Double.
White Vestments.(Albertus Magnus).
Saint Albert the Great
(Albertus Magnus).
Date: 1352.
Current location: Chiesa di San Nicolò, Treviso, Italy.
Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen
Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Born in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1200, Albert, even as a child, loved The Blessed Virgin in a special manner. He resolved to enter The Order of Saint Dominic, but, tempted by the devil, he gave up the idea.
Ultimately, however, at the earnest entreaty, and through the ardent Prayers, of Blessed Jourdan of Saxony, he resolved definitely to enter The Order of Saint Dominic. He studied Philosophy at Cologne, then at Paris, where he became one of the most renowned Professors of the University.
Saint Thomas Aquinas was one of his students. He was made Bishop of Ratisbon (Regensburg) by Pope Urban IV and defended The Church against the errors of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and died at Cologne in 1280.
He was Canonised and proclaimed Doctor of The Church in 1931.
Mass: In médio (from the Common of Doctors).
The Tympanum and Archivolts of Strasbourg Cathedral, France, with iconography inspired by Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great).
Photo: 22 July 1989.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Albertus Magnus, O.P. (circa 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Albert the Great, and Albert of Cologne, is
a Catholic Saint. He was a German Dominican Friar and a Catholic Bishop. He was known during his lifetime as “Doctor Universalis” and “Doctor Expertus”, and, late in his life, the term “Magnus” (Great) was appended to his name.
Scholars, such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder, have referred to him as the greatest German Philosopher and Theologian of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church honours him as a Doctor of The Church, one of only thirty-eight persons so honoured (as at 2025). [Editor: The most recent Doctors of The Church being Saint Irenæus of Lyon and Saint John Henry Newman].
The Catholic Doctors of The Church (as at 2025) are:
Saint Gregory the Great;
Saint Ambrose;
Saint Augustine;
Saint Jerome;
Saint Thomas Aquinas;
Saint John Chrysostom;
Saint Basil the Great;
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus;
Saint Athanasius;
Saint Bonaventure;
Saint Anselm;
Saint Isidore of Seville;
Saint Peter Chrysologus;
Saint Leo the Great;
Saint Peter Damian;
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux;
Saint Hilary of Poitiers;
Saint Alphonsus Liguori;
Saint Francis de Sales;
Saint Cyril of Alexandria;
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem;
Saint John Damascene;
Saint Bede the Venerable;
Saint Ephrem;
Saint Peter Canisius;
Saint John of The Cross;
Saint Robert Bellarmine;
Saint Albert the Great;
Saint Anthony of Padua;
Saint Lawrence of Brindisi;
Saint Teresa of Avila;
Saint Catherine of Siena;
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux;
Saint John of Avila;
Saint Hildegard von Bingen;
Saint Irenæus of Lyon;
Saint Gregory of Narek.
Saint John Henry Newman.
