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𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲: 𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓 • 𝐒𝐭. 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓
His boundless interests prompted him to write a compendium of all knowledge: natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics. His explanation of learning took 20 years to complete. “Our intention,” he said, “is to make all the aforesaid parts of knowledge intelligible to the Latins.”
He achieved his goal while serving as an educator at Paris and Cologne, as Dominican provincial, and even as bishop of Regensburg for a short time. He defended the mendicant orders and preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia.
Albert, a Doctor of the Church, is the patron of scientists and philosophers.
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𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺, 𝘖 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘵. 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘯, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥.
𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯.
