Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas of Aquino, 1225- 1274, an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was a philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis, here as a teacher with a Pigeon,Thomas von Aquino als Lehrer, eine Taube sagt ihm ein, 1500, digital improved reproduction of a woodcut, published in the 19th century