Pope urban ii biography of albert
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BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Saint Albert the Great
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
One of the great masters of medieval theology is St Albert the Great. The title "Great", (Magnus), with which he has passed into history indicates the vastness and depth of his teaching, which he combined with holiness of life. However, his contemporaries did not hesitate to attribute to him titles of excellence even then. One of his disciples, Ulric of Strasbourg, called him the "wonder and miracle of our epoch".
He was born in Germany at the beginning of the 13th century. When he was still young he went to Italy, to Padua, the seat of one of the most famous medieval universities. He devoted himself to the study of the so-called "liberal arts": grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music, that is, to culture in general, demonstrating that characteristic interest in the natural sciences which was soon to become the favourite field for his specialization. During his stay in Padua he attended the Church of the Dominicans, whom he then joined with the profession of the religious vows. Hagiographic sources suggest that Albert came to this decision gradually.
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Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican mendicant and angel (c. 1200–1280)
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Saint Albertus Magnus OP | |
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| Born | c. 1200[1] Lauingen, Duchy rivalry Bavaria |
| Died | 15 Nov 1280 Cologne, Consecrated Roman Empire |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 1622, Malady, Papal States by Pontiff Gregory XV |
| Canonized | 16 December 1931, Vatican Municipality by Vicar of christ Pius XI |
| Major shrine | St. Andrew's Church, Cologne |
| Feast | 15 November |
| Attributes | Dominican pattern, mitre, make a reservation, and quill |
| Patronage | Those who support the spiritual leader sciences, aesculapian technicians, philosophers, and scientists |
| Other names | Albertus Teutonicus, Albertus Coloniensis, Albert the Seamless, Albert stop Cologne |
| Known for | Teaching worry about theology Pioneering scholar disregard Aristotle On the rampage study pounce on minerals Discovery duplicate the signal arsenic |
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| Alma mater | University tension Padua |
| Era | Medieval philosophy |
| Region | W • Saint Albert the Great-Our PatronSaint Albert the Great, patron of our parish, known to the world for several centuries, as Albertus Magnus, was born in 1206, the eldest son of the Count of Bollstadt, in the castle of Lauingen on the DanubeRiver. At the age of sixteen, while a student at the University of Padua in northern Italy, he presented himself to enter as a postulant the newly formed Dominican Order, the Friars Preachers. He was formally received into the Order in 1222 by Jordan of Saxony, immediate successor of St. Dominic. His family strongly opposed this decision but to no avail. By 1228 he was back in Germany teaching at Cologne. During the following several years he taught and supervised studies in the German cities of Hildesheim, Freiburg-im-Breisgau Regensburg, and Strasburg. Finally, he returned to Cologne having acquired a reputation as scholar-academician among the German Dominicans. Next he went to Paris, the center of all all learning in medieval Europe. Here he studied under the great masters until taking his master’s degree at the University of Paris. He crowned this achievement with a doctorate in 1245 at the age of 39. He returned again to Cologne where in 1248 he encountered his most renowned pupil and protégé, a young Italian friar, Thomas of Aquinas |