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 ST. ALBERT THE GREAT, the patron saint of
the College of Science, was born about 1200. As an adult,
he studied at Bologna and Padua and entered the newly
founded Dominican order in 1223. For the next three
decades he studied and taught in Paris and Cologne, where
the young Thomas Aquinas was among his students. In 1254,
Albert was elected prior provincial of Germany and soon
after was appointed papal theologian and named Bishop of
Ratisbon. Yearning for the academic life, he resigned his
episcopal appointment in 1262 and returned to Cologne for
a life of prayer and study. He died in 1280.According to a contemporary,
Albertus was a man "so superior in every science
that he can fittingly be called the wonder and miracle of
our time." His encyclopedic writings included works
on physics, geography, astronomy, chemistry, biology,
philosophy, and theology. He was a major figure in the
introduction of the work of Aristotle to the Latin West
and was instrumental in the acceptance of human learning
as an essential handmaid to theology. In 1933, Albert was
proclaimed a saint and doctor of the Church.
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