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What position did Saint Thomas Aquinas hold in the Church?

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He is the greatest figure of scholasticism , one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church, and founder of the system declared by Pope Leo XIII (in the encyclical Aeterni Patris, 1879) to be the official Catholic philosophy.

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