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St. Albertus Magnus, O.P.
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Releegious
, Bishop, an
Doctor o the Kirk
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Born
| ca
. 1200
Lauingen
,
Duchy o Bavarie
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Dee'd
| November 15, 1280
Cologne
,
Haly Roman Empire
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Veneratit in
| Catholic Kirk
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Beatified
| 1622,
Roum
,
Papal States
, by
Pape Gregory XV
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Canonised
| 1931,
Vatican Ceety
, by
Pape Pius XI
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Major
shrine
| St. Andrew's Kirk, Cologne
, Germany
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Feast
| November 15
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Patronage
| Cincinnati, Ohio
; medical technicians; naitural sciences; filosofers; scientists; students;
Warld Youth Day
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Albertus Magnus
,
O.P.
(afore 1200 ? November 15, 1280), kent as
Albert the Great
an
Albert o Cologne
an aw, is a Catholic saunt. He wis a German Dominican
friar
an a
Catholic bishop
. He wis kent during his lifetime as
doctor universalis
an
doctor expertus
an, late in his life, the term
magnus
wis appendit tae his name.
[1]
Scholars sic as James A. Weisheipl an Joachim R. Soder hae referred tae him as the greatest German filosofer an theologian o the
Middle Ages
.
[2]
The
Catholic Kirk
honours him as a
Doctor o the Kirk
, ane o anly 36 sae honoured.
- ↑
Weisheipl, James A. (1980), "The Life and Works of St. Albert the Great", in Weisheipl, James A. (ed.),
Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays
, Studies and texts,
49
, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, p. 46,
ISBN
0-88844-049-9
- ↑
Joachim R. Soder, "Albert der Grosse ? ein staunen- erregendes Wunder,” Wort und Antwort 41 (2000): 145; J.A. Weisheipl, "Albertus Magnus,” Joseph Strayer ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages 1 (New York: Scribner, 1982) 129.