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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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