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(a-kwi'nas,) ST. THOMAS, one of the greatest of the scholastic philosophers, surnamed the ' Angelic Doctor,' and the 'Angel of the Schools, B. in 1227, entered the Dominican order, and, after studying under Albert us Magnus at Cologne, accompanied him to Paris, where, after being made doctor of theology, he gave himself up to preaching and teaching. D. on his way to the Council of Lyons, 1274, was canonized by John XXII. in 1323, and declared a doctor of the church by Pius V. in 1567. His chief work is the Summa Theolog iæ, one of the grandest monuments of human thought in the Middle Ages. One of the leading doctrines of A., and of his followers, the Thomists, is that of grace and predestination, and this was controverted by Duns Scotus and his followers, the Scotists. [s. 40]