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>>20657744
>>20657744
>That's not an "anecdote". It's part of the record of Aquinas's life, as well documented as any facts we have about the man.
Yes, the anecdote is part of the record. I didn't mean to question its validity, I think it's true that St. Aquinas said that. It's also not part of his last rites. You keep conflating the two events even though they happened months apart and under vastly different contexts.
>Provide documentation for your spurious claims about Aquinas.
I assume you don't know much about the recovery of Aristotle, the unity of the intellect controversy, and the fact that St. Aquinas studied and tried to salvage Aristotle despite a Papal ban on Aristotle's works. Basically, St. Aquinas was a secret heretic his entire life, and his work faced the risk of being anathematized by the Church. Only in 1277, 3 years after his death, did the Church rehabilitate Aristotelian thinking through a careful, line-by-line analysis of what was salvageable (e.g. the metaphysics) and what was incompatible with the Bible, largely thanks to St. Aquinas's work. But anyway, I've attached a screenshot.

p. 292-293. You can find the book on libgen. And the quote comes up as the first result on Google search.

Torrell, Jean-Pierre (2005). Saint Thomas Aquinas (Rev. ed.). Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.