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Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death

Dominican priests react to the visage of a holy man they have grown to know and love.

(Photo: Cicero Moraes )The picture of the saint has garnered tremendous reaction on social media as well as from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, where the skull relic visited last November. "I am, of course, happy whenever the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, receives attention from the secular press and those who are not Catholic or as devoted to him as I am," the president of the Dominican House of Studies told the Register. (Photo: Cicero Moraes )“The authors postulate,” the study states, “that Aquinas may have suffered a traumatic brain injury and that his death at age 48 was occasioned by a chronic subdural hematoma.”

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