St Thomas Aquinas

St Thomas Aquinas was Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. As a theologian he was responsible for the Summa theologiae and for the classical systematisation of Latin theology; and as a poet he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy.

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint Michael at Farnborough was founded from the French Abbey of Solesmes in 1895. The monks live a traditional life of prayer, work and study in accordance with the ancient rule of Saint Benedict. At the heart of their life is the praise of God expressed through the solemn celebration of the sacred liturgy, and supported through their manual work, of which this card is an example.