Death of Thomas Aquinas

Name: Death of Thomas Aquinas
Start: 1274

Type Event Region Italy Time 1274

On March 7, 1274, the scholastic giant Thomas Aquinas died of illness at the Fossanova monastery in Italy, aged about forty-nine, having fallen ill e…

Timeline

c. 1274Central Italy · LazioSummoned by the pope, Aquinas set out north from Naples toward Lyon, but fell suddenly gravely ill and was forced to stop and rest at the Cistercian monastery at Fossanova, unable to continue his journey.
1274Fossanova monastery · LazioAquinas died at Fossanova monastery; tradition holds that he ceased writing the Summa Theologica near the end and experienced a mystical vision. He was canonized in 1323 and declared a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII in 1880.

Sources

St. Thomas Aquinas https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide — Edward Feser (2009)