on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a ...
8 The figure of Judith was for St. Thomas a type of Mary who in bringing forth Christ restored God's people "to their original innocence" and that what was said of Judith, "Thou art the glory of ...
But when the cranium of the medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas comes to visit ... of people who came to kneel before it at St. Dominic’s Church in Washington, D.C., last month ...