A quinas

or D'AQuINO, THOMAS, born about A.p., entered the Dominican Order at the age twenty, and after studying at Cologne and Paris as Doctor of Theology in 1257. He spent life in the service of his Order, and refused ecclepromotion though revered and consulted by Pope and by his kinsman, Louis IX. He com the highest intellectual culture of his times such remarkable piety and swectne of temper to earn the title of “The Angelic Doctor.” In he was canonised, and his authority has come be recognised as paramount in the Roman though his theological opponent, Duns of the Francis can Order, for many years a large following. The views of A quinas are up in his great work entitled Swumuma A quinas spent his last years at Naples, diced in 1274 at the monastery of Fo a nov a, Terracina, on his way to the Council of Lyons. Aquitaine (Lat. A quit an i a), the ancient name thut portion of Gaul that is comprised between Pyrenees and the Garonne. After conquering country, Cesar extended the limits of A quit an i a the river Loire, and August us added to it the of the Bituriges Cubi (afterwards Berry Bourbonnais). Clovis in the next century an it to the kingdom of the Franks. In 628 it for a short time a kingdom in itself, but was to a duchy till 768, when Charlemagne again it into a dependent sovereignty. In 877 once more became a duchy and the name corrupted into Guyenne. In 1137 Eleonora, of the last duke, married Louis VII. of and brought Guyenne and Gascony as her On her marriage with Henry II. the duchy an appanage of the English crown, and was until 1453.