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13th-century Christian mystics

  • Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
  • Francis of AssisiGiovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was born in Assisi, a small town in Italy, around 1181. His father, Pietro di Bernardone, was a prosperous silk merchant who…