Santo tomas de villanueva biography

  • Thomas of Villanova, OSA, born Tomás García y Martínez, was a Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher, ascetic and religious writer of his day.
  • Thomas of Villanova, OSA (1488 – September 8, 1555), born Tomás García y Martínez, was a Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher.
  • (1488 – September 8, 1555) Saint Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname from the town where he was raised.

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    St. Thomas of Villanueva

    Augustinian bishop. Born at Fuentellana, Castile, Spain, he was the son of a miller. He studied at the University of Alcala, earned a licentiate in theology, and became a professor there at the age of twenty-six. He declined the chair of philosophy at the university of Salamanca and instead entered the Order of St Augustine at Salamanca in 1516. Ordained in 1520, he served as prior of several houses in Salamanca, Burgos, and Valladolid, as provincial ofAndal usia and Castile, and then court chaplain to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556). During his time as provincial of Castile, he dispatched the first Augustinian missionaries to the New World. They subsequently helped evangelize the area of modern Mexico. He was offered but declined the see of Granada, but accepted appointment as archbishop of Valencia in 1544. As the see had been vacant for nearly a century, Thomas devoted much effort to restoring the spiritual and material life of the archdioces

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    Thomas of Villanova

    Preacher, ascetic and religious writer

    "St. Thomas of Villanova" redirects here. For other uses, see St. Thomas of Villanova (disambiguation).

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    Thomas of Villanova


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    Old master print of St. Thomas in Portraits of Illustrious Spaniards (Madrid, 1791)

    BornTomás García y Martínez
    1488
    in Villanueva de los Infantes,
    Ciudad Real, Spain
    DiedSeptember 8, 1555
    in Valencia, Spain
    Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
    (Order of St. Augustine)
    BeatifiedOctober 7, 1618 by Pope Paul V
    CanonizedNovember 1, 1658 by Pope Alexander VII
    FeastSeptember 22
    AttributesA bishop distributing almträd to the poor
    PatronageDanao, Cebu
    Santolan, Pasig
    Alimodian and Miag-ao in Iloilo
    Dao, Capiz
    Villanova University

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    Thomas of Villanova, St.

    Augustinian scholar, archbishop of Valencia; b. 1486, Fuenllana, Spain; d. Sept. 8, 1555, Valencia, Spain. Tomás García Martínez was born of Alonso Tomás García and Lucía Martínez Castellanos in Fuenllana in the province of Toledo, Spain. His family came from the city of Villanova (now Villanueva) de los Infantes, from which, according to the custom of his time, he derived his surname. At age 16 he enrolled at the University of Alcalá (1502–1512), obtained his degree in theology in an exceptionally short period of time, and was immediately invited to become part of the teaching faculty of his alma mater (1512–1516). The University of Salamanca, offered Thomas a professorship in 1516. Thomas declined the offer, announcing instead his intention to become an Augustinian friar. He professed religious vows in the Order of Saint Augustine on Nov. 25, 1517 and was ordained a priest on Dec. 18, 1518. His fellow

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