Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The '''Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas''' ('''PUST'''), also known as the '''''Angelicum''''' or '''''Collegio Angelico''''' (in honor of its patron, the ''Doctor Angelicus'' Thomas Aquinas), is a pontifical university located in the historic center of Rome, Italy. The ''Angelicum'' is administered by the Dominican Order and is the order's central locus of Thomistic theology and philosophy.

The ''Angelicum'' is coeducational and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology, philosophy, canon law, and social sciences, as well as certificates and diplomas in related areas. Courses are offered in Italian and some in English. The ''Angelicum'' is staffed by clergy and laity and serves both religious and lay students from around the world.

==History== The ''Angelicum'' has its roots in the Dominican mission to study and to teach truth. This mission is reflected in the order's motto, "''Veritas''". The distinctively pedagogical character of the Dominican apostolate as intended by Saint Dominic de Guzman in 1214 at the birth of the order, "the first order instituted by the Church with an academic mission",<ref>P. Mandonnet, "Order of Preachers", ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', 1913. Accessed 31 December 2012.</ref> is succinctly expressed by another of the Order's mottos, ''contemplare et contemplata aliis tradere'', (to contemplate and to bear the fruits of contemplation to others).<ref>This motto is a paraphrase of Thomas Aquinas' teaching on the perfection of the Dominican charism, ''Summa theologiae'', III, 40, 1 ad 2: "Vita contemplativa simpliciter est melior quam activa quae occupatur circa corporales actus, sed vita activa secundum quam aliquis praedicando et docendo contemplata aliis tradit, est perfectior quam vita quae solum contemplatur, quia talis vita praesupponit abundantiam contemplationis. Et ideo Christus talem vitam elegit." ''Summa Theologica'', II, II, 188, 6.</ref> Pope Honorius III approved the Order of Preachers in December 1216 and January 1217.<ref>See the papal bulls ''Religiosam vitam'' and ''Nos attendentes''</ref> On 21 January 1217 the papal bull ''Gratiarum omnium''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2X-DsLOjoMIC&pg=PA202 ''Omnia disce: medieval studies in memory of Leonard Boyle, O.P.'']. A. Duggan, J. Greatrex, B. Bolton, L. E. Boyle, 2005, p. 202.</ref> confirmed the Order's pedagogical mission by granting its members the right to preach universally, a power formerly dependent on local episcopal authorization.<ref>J.-P. Renard, ''La formation et la désignation des prédicateurs au debut de l'Ordre des Prêcheurs'', Freiburg, 1977.</ref>

===Medieval origin (1222): the Santa Sabina ''studium conventuale''=== Saint Dominic established priories focused on study and preaching that became the Order's first ''studia generalia'', at the Parisian convent of St. Jacques in 1217, at Bologna in 1218, at Palencia and Montpellier in 1220, and at Oxford before his death in 1221.<ref>[http://www.domcentral.org/study/opstudy.htm Accessed 2 June 2012] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229185458/http://www.domcentral.org/study/opstudy.htm |date=29 December 2010}}</ref> By 1219 Pope Honorius III had invited Dominic and companions to take up residence at the ancient Roman basilica of Santa Sabina, which they did by early 1220. In May 1220 at Bologna the Order's first General Chapter mandated that each convent of the Order maintain a ''studium''.<ref>W. Hinnebusch, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pf4hAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA701 ''The Dominicans: A Short History''], 1975, Ch. 1: "By requiring that each priory have a professor it laid the foundation for the Order's schools." {{cite web|url=http://www.domcentral.org/trad/shorthistory/short01.htm |title=Hinnebusch: 1 the Foundation of the Order |access-date=3 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618023044/http://www.domcentral.org/trad/shorthistory/short01.htm |archive-date=18 June 2012}} Accessed 9 June 2011; ''Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics'', Vol. 10, 701. "In each convent there was also a ''studium particulare''." Accessed 9 June 2011</ref> The official foundation of the Dominican '''''studium conventuale''''' at Rome, which would grow into the ''Angelicum'', occurred with the legal transfer of the Santa Sabina complex from Pope Honorius III to the Order of Preachers on 5 June 1222.<ref>''Bullarium Ordinis FF. Praedicatorum'', Tomus Primus, Ab Anno 1215 ad 1280, 15; https://books.google.com/books?id=fTcNTiUqC9oC&pg=PA15 Accessed 13 March 2013: "Anno 1222, Die 5 Junii, Honorius Episcopus, Servus Servorum Dei, dilectis filiis Magistro, & Fratribus Ordinis Predicatorum, Salutem. & Apostlicam Benedictionem. Quia omnibus ex officio nostro, licet immeriti, presumus, merito vobis, qui vestro ministerio proficere cupitis universis, commoda, cum convenit, ministramus; ut sic Ministri Christi & dispensatores Mysteriorum Dei per nostrum ministerium honorentur. Cum igitur certum hospitium non haberetis in Urbe, ubi eo forsan plus prodesse potestis, quo ibi tam indigene, quam extranei congregantur: Nos tam vobis, quam multorum utilitati consulere cupientes, Ecclesiam S. Sabine, ad celebrandum, & domos, ad inhabitandum, sicut Seculares Clerici haburerunt, de consensu Fratrum nostrorum, & specialiter dilecti filii nostri tituli eiusdem Ecclesie Presbyteri Cardinalis, vobis duximus concedendam, domo ubi est Baptisterium cum horto proximo & reclusorio pro duobus Clericis reservato, qui de Parochia, & possessionibus ipsius Ecclesie, prout expediet, curam gerent, iure Cardinalis in omnibus integre conservato. Nulli ergo &c. Datum Rome Nonis junii, Pontificatus nostri Anno Sexto."; P. Mandonnet, ''St. Dominic and His Work'', 1948, Ch. III, note 50: "If the installation at Santa Sabina does not date from 1220, at least it is from 1221. The official grant was made only in June, 1222 (Bullarium O.P., I, 15). But the terms of the bull show that there had been a concession earlier. Before that concession the Pope said that the friars had no hospitium in Rome. At that time St. Sixtus was no longer theirs; Conrad of Metz could not have alluded to St. Sixtus, therefore, when he said in 1221: "the Pope has conferred on them a house in Rome" (Laurent no. 136). It is possible that the Pope was waiting for the completion of the building that he was having done at Santa Sabina, before giving the title to the property, on 5 June 1222, to the new Master of the Order, elected not many days before." http://domcentral.org/blog/years-of-experimental-activity-1215-19/ {{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Accessed=13 August 2013</ref>

St. Hyacinth of Poland and companions Bl. Ceslaus, Herman of Germany, and Henry of Moravia were among the first to study at the ''studium'' of Santa Sabina where "sacred studies flourished".<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/MN5081ucmf_3/MN5081ucmf_3_djvu.txt ''Compendium Historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum''], A.M. Walz, 1930, 214: "Conventus S. Sabinae de Urbe prae ceteris gloriam singularem ex praesentia fundatoris ordinis et primitivorum fratrum necnon ex residentia Romana magistrorum generalium, si de ea sermo esse potest, habet. In documentis quidem eius nonnisi anno 1222 nomen fit, ait certe iam antea nostris concreditus est. Florebant ibi etiam studia sacra." Accessed 9 April 2011; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07591b.htm Accessed 17 February 2013. After receiving the religious habit from St. Dominic in 1220 and an abbreviated novitiate they became missionaries and spread the Order in their homelands.</ref>

From its beginning the Santa Sabina ''studium'' played the special role of frequently providing papal theologians from among its members. Since its institution in 1218 the office of Master of the Sacred Palace has always been entrusted to a Friar of the Order of Preachers. In 1218 Saint Dominic was appointed as the first Master of the Sacred Palace by Pope Honorius III. In 1246 Pope Innocent IV appointed Annibaldo degli Annibaldi (c. 1220 – 1272) third Master of the Sacred Palace after Saint Dominic and Bartolomeo di Breganze. Annibaldi had completed his initial studies at the Santa Sabina ''studium conventuale'' and was later sent to the ''studium generale'' at Paris.<ref>Pio Tomasso Masetti, ''Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum ab anno 1216 ad 1348'', 1864, https://books.google.com/books?id=bM6wwPZorcAC&pg=PA315 Accessed 17 February 2013; "Fonti anche antiche affermano che l'A., entrato ancor giovane tra i domenicani nel convento romano di S. Sabina, dopo i primi studi - verosimilmente già sacerdote - fu inviato per i gradi accademici a Parigi e qui la sua presenza è accertata solo dopo il 1255." http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/annibaldo-annibaldi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 22 June 2011</ref> Aquinas dedicated to Annibaldi the ''Catena aurea'', which he wrote during his regency at the Santa Sabina ''studium'' beginning in 1265.

===1265: ''studium provinciale''=== [[File:Gentile da Fabriano 052.jpg|thumb|''Angelicum'' patron, the ''Doctor'' ''Angelicus'', Saint Thomas Aquinas, by Gentile da Fabriano c. 1400]] At the general chapter of Valenciennes in 1259 Thomas Aquinas together with masters Bonushomo Britto, Florentius, Albert, and Peter took part in establishing a program of studies for novices and lectors including two years of philosophy, two years of fundamental theology, church history and canon law, and four years of theology. Those who showed capacity were sent on to a ''studium generale'' to complete this course becoming ''lector'', ''magister studentium'', ''baccalaureus'', and ''magister theologiae''.<ref>''Histoire littéraire de la France: XIIIe siècle'', Volume 19, p. 103, https://books.google.com/books?id=LIYNAAAAQAAJ&dq=bonushomo&pg=PA103 Accessed 27 October 2012; Probably Florentius de Hidinio, aka Florentius Gallicus, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LIYNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA103 ''Histoire littéraire de la France: XIIIe siècle''], Volume 19, p. 104, Accessed 27 October 2012; [https://books.google.com/books?id=pf4hAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA701 ''Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics''], Volume 10, p. 701. Accessed 9 June 2011</ref>

The new formation program outlined at Valenciennes featured the study of philosophy as an innovation. "In the early days there was no need to study philosophy or the arts in the Order; young men entered already trained in the humanities at the university. St. Albert received his arts training at Padua, St. Thomas at Naples; they were prepared to study theology. By 1259, however, it became evident that youths entering the Order were not sufficiently trained; the new ''ratio studiorum'' of 1259 established ''studia philosophiae'' in certain provinces corresponding to the university faculty of arts."<ref>[http://opcentral.org/resources/2012/08/23/the-place-of-study-in-the-ideal-of-st-dominic/ "The Place of Study In the Ideal of St. Dominic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012084928/http://opcentral.org/resources/2012/08/23/the-place-of-study-in-the-ideal-of-st-dominic/ |date=12 October 2015 }}, J. A. Weisheipl, 1960. Accessed 2 September 2015</ref>

In February 1265 newly elected Pope Clement IV summoned Aquinas to Rome as papal theologian.<ref>''A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor'', by P. Conway, 1911, "Part III: Evening"], Chapter VI, p. 62 https://archive.org/stream/StThomasAquinasOfTheOrderOfPreachers#page/n81/mode/2up - His Writings: Second Period, Accessed 2, Sept. 2015</ref> That same year in accord with the injunction of the Chapter of the Roman province at Anagni, Aquinas was assigned as regent master at the ''studium'' at Santa Sabina: <blockquote>We assign Friar Thomas of Aquino to Rome, for the remission of his sins, there to take over the direction of studies.<ref>"Fr. Thome de Aquino iniungimus in remissionem peccatorum quod teneat studium Rome." ''Acta Capitulorum Provincialium, Provinciae Romanae Ordinis Praedicatorum'', Anagni, 1265, n. 12, in Corpus Thomisticum, http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/a65.html Accessed 8 April 2011; English trans. in ''Saint Thomas Aquinas of the Order of Preachers (1225-1274), A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor'', by P. Conway, 63, https://archive.org/stream/saintthomasaquin00conwrich/saintthomasaquin00conwrich_djvu.txt Accessed 20 March 2013</ref></blockquote>

With this assignment the ''studium'' at Santa Sabina, which had been founded in 1222, was transformed into the Order's first '''''studium provinciale''''' with courses under Aquinas' direction beginning 8 September 1265<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://segr-did2.fmag.unict.it/vademecum/programmi0304/Corso%20monografico03%3A04.pdf |title=Accessed 16 February 2013 |access-date=16 February 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023653/http://segr-did2.fmag.unict.it/vademecum/programmi0304/Corso%20monografico03:04.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and featuring ''studia philosophiae'' as prescribed by Aquinas and others at the 1259 chapter of Valenciennes.

This ''studium'' was an intermediate school between the ''studium conventuale'' and the ''studium generale''. "Prior to this time the Roman Province had offered no specialized education of any sort, no arts, no philosophy; only simple convent schools, with their basic courses in theology for resident friars, were functioning in Tuscany and the meridionale during the first several decades of the order's life. But the new ''studium'' at Santa Sabina was to be a school for the province," a ''studium provinciale''.<ref>M. M. Mulchahey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bK9axCYcbFIC&pg=PA279 ''"First the bow is bent in study": Dominican education before 1350''], 1998, p. 278-279. Accessed 30 June 2011</ref> Tolomeo da Lucca, associate and early biographer of Aquinas, tells us that at Santa Sabina Aquinas taught the full range of philosophical subjects, "teaching in a new and special way almost the whole of philosophy, both moral and natural, but especially ethical and mathematical, as well as in writing and commentary."<ref>Ptolomaei Lucensis, ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' xxii, c. 24 https://books.google.com/books?id=Dr_3-05krE8C&pg=PT499 Accessed 20 February 2013:"quasi totam Philosophiam sive Morelem, sive Naturalem exposuit, & in scriptura, seu commentum redegit; sed praecipue Ethical & Mathematical, quodam singulari & novo modo tradendi."; cf. In Gregorovius' History of the City of Rome In the Middle Ages, Vol V, part II, 617, note 2. https://books.google.com/books?id=JohZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA617 Accessed 20 February 2013''History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages'', v. 5, part 2, 617, note2. Accessed 31 December 2012.</ref>

While Regent master at the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale'' Aquinas began to compose his monumental work, the ''Summa theologiae'', conceived of as a work suited to beginning students:<blockquote>Because a doctor of catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but to him pertains also to instruct beginners. as the Apostle says in 1 Corinthians 3: 1-2, ''as to infants in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not meat'', our proposed intention in this work is to convey those things that pertain to the Christian religion, in a way that is fitting to the instruction of beginners.<ref>''Summa theologiae'', I, 1, prooemium:</ref></blockquote> At Santa Sabina Thomas composed the entire ''Prima Pars'' circulating it in Italy before departing for his second regency at Paris (1269–1272).<ref>J.-P. Torrell, ''Saint Thomas Aquinas'', vol. 1, The Person and His Work, trans. Robert Royal, Catholic University, 1996, 146 ff.</ref>

Other works composed by Aquinas during this period at Santa Sabina include the ''Catena aurea in Marcum'', the ''De rationibus fidei'', the ''Catena aurea in Lucam'', the ''Quaestiones disputate de potentia Dei'', which report the disputations Aquinas held at Santa Sabina, the ''Quaestiones disputate de anima'', which were held during the academic year 1265–66, ''Expositio et lectura super epistolas Pauli Apostoli'', the ''Compendium theologiae'', the ''Responsio de 108 articulis'', part of the ''Quaestiones disputatae de malo'', the ''Catena aurea in Ioannem'', the ''De regno ad regem Cypri'', the ''Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis'', and at least the first book of the ''Sententia Libri De anima'', a commentary on Aristotle's ''De anima''. This work by Aristotle was contemporaneously being translated from the Greek by Aquinas' Dominican confrere William of Moerbeke at Viterbo in 1267.<ref>Torrell, ''op. cit.'', 161-3.</ref> [[File:Latino Malabranca Orsini.jpg|thumb|Latino Malabranca Orsini by Tommaso da Modena, 1352]] The so-called "lectura romana" or "alia lectura fratris Thome", a ''reportatio'' of the second commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard dictated by Aquinas at the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale'', may have been taken down by Jacob of Ranuccio while a student of Aquinas there from 1265 to 1268.<ref>[http://www.smn.it/emiliopanella/nomen1/iacopo.htm Accessed 1 Feb. 2013; Emilio Panella, "Iacopo di Ranuccio da Castelbuono OP, testimone dell'alia lectura fratris Thome", «Memorie domenicane» 19 (1988) 369-95.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523215535/http://www.smn.it/emiliopanella/nomen1/iacopo.htm |date=23 May 2013}}</ref> Jacob later was lector at Santa Sabina and served in the Roman Curia being made bishop in 1286, the year of his death.<ref>"Frater Iacobus Raynucii sacerdos, fuit graciosus predicator et lector arectinus et castellanus, lucanus, urbevetanus, in Tuscia provintialis vicarius, et perusinus ac etiam romanus in Sancta Sabina tempore quo curia erat in Urbe. Qui et fuit in pluribus capitulis diffinitor, postmodum prior perusinus; demum factus prior in Sancta Sabina, per papam Honorium de Sabello residentem ibidem, propter suam laudabilem vitam et celebrem opinionem que de ipso erat in romana curia, factus est [1286] episcopus florentinus" (Cr Pg 29v). "Fuit magister eximius in theologia et multum famosus in romana curia; qui actu existens lector apud Sanctam Sabinam" (Cr Ov 28) http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/lector12.htm Accessed 9 May 2011</ref>

Nicholas Brunacci (1240–1322) was among Aquinas' students at the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale'' and later at Paris. In November 1268 he accompanied Aquinas and his associate and secretary Reginald of Piperno from Viterbo to Paris to begin the academic year.<ref name="aquinatis.blogspot.com">https://aquinatis.blogspot.com/2008/05/vida-de-santo-toms-de-aquino.html Accessed 22 June 2011: "A mediados de noviembre abandonó Santo Tomás la ciudad de Viterbo en compañía de fray Reginaldo de Piperno y su discípulo fray Nicolás Brunacci." http://www.brunacci.it/s--tommaso.html Accessed 22 June 2011</ref> Albert the Great, Brunacci's teacher at Cologne after 1272, called him "the second Thomas Aquinas."<ref>''History of Italian Philosophy'', Volume 1, 85, by Eugenio Garin, https://books.google.com/books?id=sVP3vBmDktQC&dq=brunacci&pg=PA85 Accessed 29 June 2011; http://www.brunacci.it/s--tommaso.html Accessed 22 June 2011: "Per l'acutezza del suo ingegno, dopo aver studiato nella sua provincia, ebbe l'alto onore di accompagnare S. Tommaso a Parigi nel novembre del 1268. Rimase in quello studio fino al 1272 e di là passò a Colonia sotto la disciplina di Alberto Magno."</ref> Brunacci became lector at the Santa Sabina ''studium'' and later served in the papal curia.<ref>Frater Nicolaus Brunatii [† 1322] sacerdos et predicator gratiosus, fuit lector castellanus, arectinus, perusinus, urbevetanus et romanus apud Sanctam Sabinam tempore quo papa erat in Urbe, viterbiensis et florentinus in studio generali legens ibidem annis tribus (Cr Pg 37v). Cuius sollicita procuratione conventus perusinus meruit habere gratiam a summo pontifice papa Benedicto XI ecclesiam scilicet et parrochiam Sancti Stephani tempore quo [maggio 13041 ipse prior actu in Perusio erat (Cr Pg 38r). http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/lector12.htm Accessed 9 May 2011</ref> He was a correspondent by letter with Dante Alighieri during the latter's exile from Florence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brunacci.it/nicola-brunacci.html|title=Brunacci.it - Le famiglie Brunacci|first=Brunacci - Consulenza e Soluzioni|last=Informatiche</|access-date= 22 August 2012}}</ref>

===1288: ''studium particularis theologiae'', 1291 ''studium nove logice'', 1305 ''studium naturarum''=== [[File:Tommaso da modena, ritratti di domenicani (Ugo di Billon) 1352 150cm, treviso, ex convento di san niccolò, sala del capitolo.jpg|thumb|Hugh Aycelin by Tommaso da Modena, 1352. Aycelin served as a lector at Santa Sabina before 1288 when he was made Cardinal.<ref name="e-theca275">"Frater Hugo de Bidiliomo provincie Francie, magister fuit egregius in theologia et mul<tum> famosus in romana curia; qui actu lector existens apud Sanctam Sabinam, per papam Nicolaum quartum eiusdem ecclesie factus cardinalis" [16.V.1288]; postmodum per Celestinum papain [1294] est ordinatus in episcopum ostiensem (Cr Pg 3r). http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/lector12.htm Accessed 9 May 2011; See also ''Rome Across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas'', 2011, p. 275. https://books.google.com/books?id=xGiHbiqknLgC&pg=PA275 Accessed 10 July 2011</ref>]]

After the departure of Aquinas for Paris in 1268 other lectors at the Santa Sabina ''studium'' include Hugh Aycelin.<ref name="e-theca275"/> Eventually some of the pedagogical activities of the Santa Sabina ''studium'' were transferred to a new convent of the Order more centrally located at the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. This convent had a modest beginning in 1255 as a community for women converts, but grew rapidly in size and importance during its transfer to the Dominicans from 1265 to 1275.<ref>Compendium Historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum, A.M. Walz, Herder 1930, 214: Romanus conventus S. Mariae supra Minervam anno 1255 ex conditionibus parvis crevit. Tunc enim paenitentibus feminis in communi regulariter ibi 1252/53 viventibus ad S. Pancratium migratis fratres Praedicatores domum illam relictam a Summo Pontifice habendam petierunt et impetranint. Qua demum feliciter obtenda capellam hospitio circa annum 1255 adiecerunt. Huc evangelizandi causa fratres e conventu S. Sabinae descendebant. https://archive.org/stream/MN5081ucmf_3/MN5081ucmf_3_djvu.txt Accessed 17 May 2011</ref> In 1288 the theology component of the provincial curriculum was relocated from the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale'' to the ''studium conventuale'' at Santa Maria sopra Minerva which was redesignated as a ''studium particularis theologiae''.<ref>Marian Michèle Mulchahey, "First the bow is bent in study": Dominican education before 1350, 1998, p. 323. https://books.google.com/books?id=bK9axCYcbFIC&pg=PA323 Accessed 26 May 2011</ref> During this period lectors at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva ''studium'' included Niccolò da Prato, Bartolomeo da San Concordio,<ref>http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/nomen2/nicco1.htm Accessed 4 July 2011; http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/niccolo-albertini_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Accessed 17 February 2015; Marian Michèle Mulchahey, "First the bow is bent in study": Dominican education before 1350, 1998, p. 454, and note 168. https://books.google.com/books?id=bK9axCYcbFIC&pg=PA454 Accessed 17 February 2015</ref> and Matteo Orsini.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=obaOnE5rgGEC&pg=PA312 Accessed 6 March 2013, ''Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum ab anno ...'' by Pio Tomasso Masetti:, p. 312, note 1:"Illud certum est ab an. 1307 ad 1320 docendo jugiter operam dedisse: Parisiis vero an 1316 ut ex actibus Cap. Aretini 1315 constat. Fomae vero docuisse tradunt Fontana et Altamura, aliique recentiores, eos Touron excipit, qui etiam refert praefecturam Minervitani Coenobii; de his omnibus silent articult necrologici."]</ref>

Following the curriculum of studies laid out in the capitular acts of 1291 the Santa Sabina ''studium'' was redesignated as one of three ''studia nove logice'' intended to offer courses of advanced logic covering the ''logica nova'', the Aristotelian texts recovered in the West only in the second half of the 12th century, the ''Topics'', ''Sophistical Refutations'', and the ''First and Second Analytics'' of Aristotle. This was an advance over the ''logica antiqua'', which treated the ''Isagoge of Porphyry'', ''Divisions'' and ''Topics'' of Boethius, the ''Categories'' and ''On Interpretation'' of Aristotle, and the ''Summule logicales'' of Peter of Spain.<ref>Marian Michèle Mulchahey, "First the bow is bent in study": Dominican education before 1350, 1998, pp. 236-237. https://books.google.com/books?id=bK9axCYcbFIC&pg=PA236 Accessed 30 June 2011</ref> In 1305 the Minerva ''studium'' became one of four ''studia naturarum'' established in the Roman province.<ref>Marian Michèle Mulchahey, "First the bow is bent in study": Dominican education before 1350, 1998, 269. https://books.google.com/books?id=bK9axCYcbFIC&pg=PA269 Accessed 29 June 2011</ref> Iacopo Passavanti, famed preacher and author of the ''Specchio di vera penitenza'', was lector at the ''studium'' at Santa Maria sopra Minerva after finishing his studies in Paris c. 1333.<ref>Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 1906, vol. 47, 9. https://books.google.com/books?id=J7nUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 Accessed 20 February 2015</ref>

===1426: ''studium generale''=== [[File:Nolli detail pantheon.jpg|thumb|right|Nolli Map, 1748, detail showing: (837) Pantheon, (842) Piazza della Minerva, and the ''Insula Sapientiae'' (Island of Wisdom) aka ''Insula Dominicana'' including (844) Church and Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva and former College of St. Thomas, including (843) ''Palazzo della Minerva'' c. 1560 (now ''Bibliotecca del Senato'' of the Italian government), ''Guidetti Cloister'' c. 1565<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/guidetto-guidetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |title=GUIDETTI, Guidetto in "Dizionario Biografico"|access-date=30 August 2012}}</ref> (nearest to Church), ''Cisterna Cloister'',''Sala del Refettorio'', ''Sale dell'Inquisizione'', and ''Sala delle Capriate'' (former library of the College of St. Thomas) on the second floor between cloisters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.camera.it/serv_cittadini/1660/1662/4661/documentotesto.asp |title=Chamber of deputies- Services to the Public- Library-Services provided |access-date=1 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232309/http://english.camera.it/serv_cittadini/1660/1662/4661/documentotesto.asp |archive-date=16 July 2012}}; https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FE63C3CADF407B24</ref>]]

The General Chapter of 1304 mandated each of the Order's provinces establish a ''studium generale'' to meet the demand of the Order's rapidly growing membership.<ref>William Hinnebusch, ''The Dominicans: A Short History'', 1975, Chapter 2, http://www.saintwiki.com/index.php?title=Hinnebusch/The_Dominicans:_A_Short_History/Chapter_II {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208181915/http://www.saintwiki.com/index.php?title=Hinnebusch%2FThe_Dominicans%3A_A_Short_History%2FChapter_II |date=8 December 2015}} Accessed 19 July 2012; ''Acta capitulorum generalium O.P.'' 1304: "Quelibet autem provincia exceptis Dacie, Grecie, Terre Sancte provideant ut semper in aliquo conventu ydoneo sit generale studium et solempne..." https://books.google.com/books?id=JSC8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA251 Accessed 7 November 2012</ref> The ''studium'' at Santa Maria sopra Minerva was raised to the level of ''studium generale'' for the Roman province of the Order by the year 1426 and continued in this roll until 1539.<ref>In This Light Which Gives Light: A History of the College of St. Albert the Great, Christopher J. Renz, p. 42 states of the Minerva ''studium'': "For a period of time (1426-1539) it was recorded as a ''studium generale'' of the Order." https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA42 Accessed 25 February 2013</ref> It would again be affirmed as a ''studium generale'' in 1694 (see below).

On 7 March 1457, the feast of St. Thomas, humanist Lorenzo Valla delivered the annual encomium in honor of the "angelic doctor." The Dominicans of the Minerva ''studium generale'' pressed Valla not only to praise Aquinas but to voice his humanist criticism of scholastic thomism.<ref name="books.google.com">''Lorenzo Valla: umanesimo, riforma e controriforma : studi e testi'', 2002, by Salvatore Ignazio Camporeale, 150-152. https://books.google.com/books?id=IN1oGqYCnacC&pg=150 Accessed 10 April 2013. "Fu lo stesso Valla ad individuare il nucleo essenziale della controversia teologica circa il tomismo contemporaneo nel dibattito commeorative che si svolse, il 7 marzo 1457... per la festa di S. Tommaso. ... Il Valla, dunque, è salito sul pulpito del tempio minervitano dietro pressante richiesta dei frati domenicani."</ref>

Sisto Fabri served as professor of theology at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva ''studium'' in the mid-1550s.<ref>See J. Quétif-J. Echard, Scriptores Ordinis praedicatorum, II, pp. 265 s.</ref> In 1585 Fabri, who was Master of the Order of Preachers from 1583 to 1598 would undertake a reformation of the program of studies for the Order and for the ''studium'' which had been transformed into the College of St. Thomas in 1577.<ref name=Fabri>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sisto-fabri_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=FABRI, Sisto in "Dizionario Biografico"|access-date= 10 August 2013}}</ref> Fabri's reform included a nine-year formation program consisting of two years of logic using the ''Summulae logicales'' of Peter of Spain alongside Aristotle's logic, three years of philosophy including the study of Aristotle's ''De anima'', ''Physica'', and ''Metaphysica'', and four years of theology using the third part of Aquinas' ''Summa'' for speculative theology, and the second part for moral theology.<ref>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sisto-fabri_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ''Ordinationes ... pro studiorum reformatione''], G. Marescotti: Florence 1585. https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk5KAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22pro+studiorum&pg=PA230 Accessed 10 August 2013</ref> Fabri also established a professorship for the study of Hebrew at the college.<ref name=Fabri/>

In 1570 the first edition of Aquinas' opera omnia, the so-called ''editio piana'' from Pius V the Dominican Pope who commissioned it, was produced there.<ref>In This Light Which Gives Light: A History of the College of St. Albert the Great, Christopher J. Renzi, p. 42: https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA42 Accessed 24 April 2011</ref>

===Modern history (1577): ''Collegium Divi Thomae''=== The late sixteenth century saw the ''studium'' at Santa Maria sopra Minerva undergo further transformation during the pontificate of Pope Gregory XIII. Aquinas, who had been canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, was proclaimed fifth Latin Doctor of the Church by Pius V in 1567. To honor this great doctor, in 1577 Juan Solano, former bishop of Cusco, Peru, generously funded the reorganization of the ''studium'' at the convent of the Minerva on the model of the College of St. Gregory at Valladolid in his native Spain.<ref>Carlo Longo, La formazione integrale domenicana al servizio della Chiesa e della società, Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 1996, "J. Solano O.P. (1505 ca.-1580) e la fondazione del "collegium S, Thomae de Urbe (1577)": "Si andava allora imponendo come modello di formazione teologica il progetto al quale aveva dato inizio alla fine del secolo precedente il vescovo domenicano spagnolo Alonoso de Burgos (+1499), il quale, a partire dal 1487 ed effettivamente dal 1496, a Valladolid aveva fondato il Collegio di San Gregorio, redigendone statuti che, integrati successivamente, sarebbero divenuti modello di una nuova forma di esperienza formativa." https://books.google.com/books?id=gMW2uqe2MCwC&pg=PA156 Accessed 21 April 2011</ref> The features of this Spanish model included a fixed number of Dominican students admitted on the basis of intellectual merit, dedicated exclusively to study in virtue of numerous dispensations from other duties, and governed by an elected Rector.<ref>Longo, op. cit.: "Quel collegio nasceva come una comunita` domenicana a numero chiuso, dedita esclusivamente allo studio e governata da un rettore, eletto dapprina annualmente e poi ogni due anni. Vi si accedeva per meriti intellettuali e, usufruendo di molte dispense, non si era distolti da altre occupazioni nel proprio impegno di studio e di ricerca." For a description of this system Longo refers the reader to: G. De Arriaga-M.M. Hoyos, Historia del Colegio de San Gregorio deValladolid, I, Valladolid 1928, pp 61-79, 421-449.]</ref>

The result of Solano's initiative, which underwent further structural change shortly before Solano's death in 1580, was the ''Collegium Divi Thomae'' or College of St. Thomas. At the Minerva, the college occupied several existing convent structures as well as new constructions. A detail from the Nolli Map of 1748 gives some idea of the disposition of buildings when the Minerva convent housed the college.

The college cultivated the doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas as a means of carrying out the Church's mission in the New World, where Solano had shown "much zeal in defending the rights of the Indians",<ref name="cyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Solano, Juan |encyclopedia=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |editor1=Wilson, James |editor2=Fiske, John |volume=V |page=604 |publisher = D. Appleton and Company |year=1887 |url=https://archive.org/stream/appletonscyclop05wils#page/604/ |access-date=2 January 2010}}</ref> and where Dominicans like Bartolomé de las Casas, "Protector of the Indians", Pedro de Cordova, critic of the Encomienda system, and Francisco de Vitoria, theorist of international law, were already engaged.<ref>Cf. Edward Kaczyński, ''Pontifical University of St. Thomas "Angelicum"'' in: Grzegorz Gałązka, ''Pontifical Universities and Roman Athenaea'', Vatican City: ''Libreria Editrice Vaticana'', 2000, p. 52. {{ISBN|88-209-2967-8}} (casebound) or {{ISBN|88-209-2966-X}} (paperbound)</ref>

At the beginning of the seventeenth century several regents of the College of St. Thomas were involved in controversies over the nature of divine grace. Diego Alvarez (1550 c.-1635), author of the ''De auxiliis divinae gratiae et humani arbitrii viribus'' and famous apologist for the Thomistic doctrines of grace and predestination, was professor of theology at the college from 1596 to 1606.<ref>[http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Diego_Alvarez Accessed 1 July 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316002050/http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Diego_Alvarez |date=16 March 2012}}</ref> Tomas de Lemos (Ribadavia 1540 – Rome 1629).<ref name="treccani.it"/> was professor of theology at the college in 1610. In the Molinist controversy between Dominicans and Jesuits the papal commission or Congregatio de Auxiliis summoned Lemos and Diego Alvarez to represent the Dominican Order in debates before Pope Clement VIII and Pope Paul V. Lemos was editor of the ''Acta omnium congregationum ac disputationum, etc.'' and author of the much discussed ''Panoplia gratiae'' (1676).<ref>Enciclopedia Treccani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tomas-de-lemos/ Accessed 25 May 2012</ref> In 1608 Juan Gonzalez de Albelda, author of the ''Commentariorum & disputationum in primam partem Summa S. Thome de Aquino'' (1621) was regent of studies at the college.<ref>''Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum''II, 1721, by Jacques Quetif, 427. https://books.google.com/books?id=RtE2uzZ5uzoC&pg=PA427 Accessed 22 June 2011; ''God's permission of sin: negative or conditioned decree?'' Michael D. Torre, 131, https://books.google.com/books?id=IG77CCWjT20C&pg=PA131 Accessed 22 June 2011</ref> In the 1620s Juan Gonzales de Leon was regent<ref>''Augustinianum systema de gratia, ab iniqua Bajani et Janseniani erroris'', 51, by Giovanni Lorenzo Berti https://books.google.com/books?id=RZXELHLInQcC&dq=%22collegii&pg=PA51 Accessed 22 June 2011</ref> Concerning the dispute on the nature of divine grace he took up an alternative doctrine within the Thomist school, that of Juan Gonzalez d'Albeda regent at the college in 1608, that "sufficient grace not only prepares the will for a perfect act [of contrition], but also gives the will an impulse towards that act. Yet due to man's defectability that impulse is always resisted."<ref>''God's Permission of Sin: Negative Or Conditioned Decree?: A Defense of the ...'', by Michael D. Torre, 131. https://books.google.com/books?id=IG77CCWjT20C&pg=PA131</ref>

The college maintained the Dominican tradition of textual and linguistic activities as part of the Order's missionary dimension.<ref>''The Dominicans'' by Benedict M. Ashley, ch. 2, "The Professors", sections on the order's early studies of Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek. http://domcentral.org/professors-1200s/ {{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Accessed 22 March 2013</ref> Like Moerbeke's translations of Aristotle in the 1260s and the ''editio piana'' of 1570 (see above), editorial and translation projects were undertaken by the college's professors, the most notable of which would be the ''leonine edition'' of Aquinas' works (see below). Vincenzo Candido (1573-1654) presided over the translation of the Bible into Arabic.<ref>http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-candido/ Accessed 22 March 2013; Bibliotheca sicula, sive de scriptoribus siculis, qui tum vetera, tum ... By Antonino Mongitore, 279a https://books.google.com/books?id=YQY_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA279 Accessed 22 March 2013</ref> Candido had entered the Order at the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva completing there his novitiate and studies and becoming a doctor of theology,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-candido_(Dizionario_Biografico)/|title=CANDIDO, Vincenzo in "Dizionario Biografico"}}</ref> and later rector of the college in 1630.<ref>''Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum ab anno 1216 ad 1348'' vol. II, 1864, 140. https://books.google.com/books?id=bM6wwPZorcAC&pg=PA140 Accessed 20 June 2011; See also http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-candido_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 22 June 2011</ref> Candido also was part of the commission that concemned Jansenism. His own ''Disquisitionibus moralibus'' (1643) was later accused of laxims. Giuseppe Ciantes (d. 1670),<ref>Galletti in Vat. Lat. 7900 f. 106; Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, Vol 4, 233, https://www.scribd.com/doc/63478112/Hierarchia-Catholica-Medii-Aevi-V4 Accessed 21 February 2013</ref> a leading Hebrew expert of his day and author of works such as the ''De sanctissima trinitate ex antiquorum Hebraeorum testimonijs euidenter comprobata'' (1667) and ''De Sanctissima incarnatione clarissimis Hebraeorum doctrinis...defensa'' (1667), completed his studies at the college was professor of theology and philosophy there before 1640. "In 1640 Ciantes was appointed by Pope Urban VIII to the mission of preaching to the Jews of Rome (''Predicatore degli Ebrei'') in order to promote their conversion." In the mid-1650s Ciantes wrote a "monumental bilingual edition of the first three Parts of Thomas Aquinas' ''Summa contra Gentiles'', which includes the original Latin text and a Hebrew translation prepared by Ciantes, assisted by Jewish apostates, the ''Summa divi Thomae Aquinatis ordinis praedicatorum Contra Gentiles quam Hebraicè eloquitur...''. Until the present this remains the only significant translation of a major Latin scholastic work in modern Hebrew."<ref>"Kabbalah and Conversion: Caramuel and Ciantes on Kabbalah as a Means for the Conversion of the Jews", by Yossef Schwartz, in '' Un'altra modernità. Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606-1682): enciclopedia e probabilismo'', eds. Daniele Sabaino and Paolo C. Pissavino (Pisa: Edizioni EPS 2012): 175-187, 176-7, https://www.academia.edu/2353870/Kabbalah_and_Conversion_Caramuel_and_Ciantes_on_Kabbalah_as_a_Means_for_the_Conversion_of_the_Jews Accessed 16 March 2012. See ''Summa divi Thomae Aquinatis ordinis praedicatorum Contra Gentiles quam Hebraicè eloquitur Iosephus Ciantes Romanus Episcopus Marsicensis ex eodem Ordine assumptus'', ex typographia Iacobi Phaei Andreae filii, Romae 1657.</ref>

Tommaso Caccini (1574–1648), one of the principal critics of Galileo Galilei, was baccalaureaus at the college in 1615.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=MsAAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 Accessed 2 July 2011. See also: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/keyfigures.html#Tommaso Caccini Accessed 2 July 2011. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommaso-caccini_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Accessed 18 February 2013</ref>

Several figures associated with the college during this period were involved in the defense of the doctrine of Papal infallibility. Dominic Gravina, the most celebrated theologian of his day in Italy,<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/herbermann/cathen06.txt Accessed 15 February 2013]</ref> was professor of theology at the college in 1610.<ref name="treccani.it">{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-gravina/ |title=Gravina, Domenico nell'Enciclopedia Treccani |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> Gravina was made master of sacred theology by the General Chapter of the Order at Rome in 1608. He wrote ''Vox turturis seu de florenti usque ad nostra tempora ... sacrarum Religionum statu'' (1625) in polemic with Robert Bellarmine whose ''De gemitu columbae'' (1620) criticized the decadence of religious orders.<ref>http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-gravina/ Accessed 9 March 2013; Cf. ''Geschichte der Moralstreitigkeiten in der römisch-katholischen ...'', Volume 2, 309, by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Franz Heinrich Reusch; https://books.google.com/books?id=hauwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309 Accessed 9 March 2013; Storia della spiritualità italiana By Costanzo Cargnoni, 375-6, https://books.google.com/books?id=BfYiHmsYVuwC&pg=PA375 Accessed 9 March 2013</ref> Gravina, wrote concerning Papal infallibility: "To the Pontiff, as one (person) and alone, it was given to be the head;" and again, "The Roman Pontiff for the time being is one, therefore he alone has infallibility."<ref>''De supremo Judice controv. Fidei et de Papae Infallib. in Decret. Fidei, Morum, etc'', quaest. 1, apud Rocaberti, ''Bibliotheca Maxima Pontificia'', 1695-99, tom viii, 392. https://books.google.com/books?id=_MMPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105</ref>

In 1630 Abraham Bzovius funded a scholarship for Polish students at the college.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=j9AWAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Abramo+Bzovio+lo%22&pg=PA663 Accessed 17 January 2015; Il Rosario, Volume 12, p. 663</ref>

Vicente Ferre (+1682), author of the ''Commentaria scholastica in Div. Thomam'' (1691) as well as of several commentaries on the Summa Theologica was regent of the college from 1654 to 1672. Ferre was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the leading Thomists of his day.<ref>Remigius Coulon, "Ferre: Vincent", in: Dictionary of Catholic Theology, ed. by A. Vacant, E. Mangenor and E. Amann, Vol 5/2, Paris 1913, 2176 -2177.</ref> In his ''De Fide'' Ferre writes in defense of Papal infallibility that Christ said "I have prayed for thee, Peter; sufficiently showing that the infallibility was not promised to the Church as apart from (seorsum) the head, but promised to the head, that from him it should be derived to the Church."<ref>''De Fide'', quaest. xii, apud Rocaberti, tom. xx, p. 388, quoted in ''The Vatican Council and Its Definitions: Pastoral Letter to the Clergy'', Henry Edward Manning (1871), 105. https://books.google.com/books?id=_MMPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105 Accessed 17 February 2013. Ferre also writes:"The exposition of certain Paris (doctors) is of no avail, who affirm that Christ only promised that the faith should not fail of the Church founded upon Peter; and not that it should not fail in the successors of Peter taken apart from (seorsum) the Church"</ref>

In the late seventeenth century figures such as Gregorio Selleri who taught at the college were instrumental in fostering the condemnation of Jansenism<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1726-ii.htm|title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 9, 1726|first=Salvador|last=Miranda}}</ref>

At the general chapter of Rome in 1694 Antonin Cloche, Master General of the Dominican Order, reaffirmed the College of St. Thomas as the ''studium generale'' of the Roman province of the Order.<blockquote>We institute as a ''studium generale'' of this province...the Roman College of St. Thomas at our convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva<ref>Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostril giorni, Gaetano Moroni, Vol XIV, Venice, 1842, Vol. XIV, p. 214: "Nel capitol generale, tenuto in Roma nell'anno 1694, sotto il generalto del p. Cloche, il Collegio di S. Tommaso d'Aquino venne dichiarato studio generale della provincia romana" https://books.google.com/books?id=rl09AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Collegio+di+s.+tommaso%22 Accessed 2 September 2011; ''Acta capituli generalis provincialium Romae'', Vol. 8, 1670-1721), 28 May 1694, p. 299: "Instituimus in studium generale huius provinciae ultra studium generale Perusinum collegium s. Thomae Romanum aggregatum conventui nostro s. Mariae super Minervam, ipsique collegio nostro Romano concedimus privilegia, quibus studia generalia seu universitates in ordine nostro per capitula generalia instituta potiuntur et gaudent, approbantes omnes ordinationes a magistris ordinis pro bono regimine huius studii seu collegii a tempore suae erectionis factas, ita tamen ut magistri ordinis eas innovare et immutare valeant, cum ad ratiorem studii vel observantiae regularis rigorem et studentium profectum expedire iudicaverint." http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/actacapitulorumg13domi/actacapitulorumg13domi_djvu.txt Accessed November 1, 2012</ref></blockquote>At this time, the college became an international centre of Thomistic specialization open to members of various provinces of the Dominican Order and to other ecclesiastical students, local and foreign.

In 1698, Cardinal Girolamo Casanata, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, established the ''Biblioteca Casanatense'' at the Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.<ref>[http://www.casanatense.it/jsp/english_site/about_us/history.jsp The Casanatense Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606054851/http://www.casanatense.it/jsp/english_site/about_us/history.jsp |date=6 June 2007 }}; Renz, op. cit. p. 43: https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA43 Accessed 24 April 2011</ref> This library was independent of the College of St. Thomas, sponsoring its own Librarians. Casanate also endowed four chairs of learning at the college to foster the study of Greek, Hebrew and Dogmatic Theology.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=UmC3QCVVoqoC&dq=%22Colegio+de+la+minerva%22&pg=PA30 Accessed 18 January 2015; Anales de la sagrada religion de Santo Domingo, 1709, Joseph de Sarabia y Lezana, p. 30</ref>

With the papal bull ''Pretiosus'' dated 26 May 1727<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberius.net/articles/Les_colleges_ecclesiastiques_de_Rome.pdf|title=Accessed 26, May, 2014}}</ref> Dominican Pope Benedict XIII granted to all Dominicans major houses of study the right of conferring academic degrees in theology to students outside the Order.

In the 1748 General Chapter or the Order at Bologna it was stated that the Thomistic philosophical and theological tradition needed to be revived. In 1757 Master General Juan Tomás de Boxadors composed a letter to all members of the Order lamenting deviations from Thomistic doctrine, and demanded a return to the teachings of Aquinas. This letter was also published in the General Chapter Acts in Rome 1777. Responding to Boxadors and to the prevailing philosophical rationalism of the Enlightenment, Salvatore Roselli, professor of theology at the Roman College of St. Thomas,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6BDmuuAe3gcC&pg=PA21|title=An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics|first=Sharon M.|last=Leon|date=5 June 2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780226038988}}</ref> published a six volume ''Summa philosophica'' (1777) giving an Aristotelian interpretation of Aquinas validating the senses as a source of knowledge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saintwiki.com/index.php?title=Hinnebusch/The_Dominicans:_A_Short_History/Chapter_IX|title=Hinnebusch/The Dominicans: A Short History/Chapter IX - Saint Wiki|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120036/http://www.saintwiki.com/index.php?title=Hinnebusch%2FThe_Dominicans%3A_A_Short_History%2FChapter_IX|archive-date=17 May 2014}}</ref> While teaching at the college Roselli is considered to have laid the foundation for Neothomism in the nineteenth century.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3407709691/roselli-salvatore-maria.html, ''Roselli, Salvatore Maria'', New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003, Roensch, F. J.: "...he furnished the basis for the Thomistic reconstruction of the 19th century; {{cite web |url=http://www.scholasticon.fr/Database/Scholastiques_fr.php?ID=1101 |title=Roselli, Salvatore Maria - Scholasticon |access-date=29 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824114534/http://www.scholasticon.fr/Database/Scholastiques_fr.php?ID=1101 |archive-date=24 August 2011 }} Accessed 28 June 2014; ''Scholasticon'' calls Roselli "l'un des principaux ancêtres du néo-thomisme du XIXe siècle. Accessed 28 June 2014</ref> According to historian J.A. Weisheipl in the late 18th and early 19th centuries "everyone who had anything to do with the revival of Thomism in Italy, Spain and France was directly influenced by Roselli's monumental work.<ref>“The Revival of Thomism: An Historical Survey,” James Weisheipl, 1962 {{cite web |url=http://domcentral.org/blog/the-revival-of-thomism-an-historical-survey-weisheipl/ |title=The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great » "The Revival of Thomism: An Historical Survey" (James Weisheipl) |access-date=21 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927202339/http://domcentral.org/blog/the-revival-of-thomism-an-historical-survey-weisheipl/ |archive-date=27 September 2013 }} Accessed 30 August 2013</ref>

After the Church's loss of the temporal power in 1870 the Italian government declared the college's vast library national property leaving the Dominicans in charge only until 1884.

Vincenzo Nardini (d. 1913) completed his theological and philosophical studies at the college and became lector there in 1855 teaching mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry and astronomy. Nardini reorganized the institute of science founded at the college in 1840 by Albert Gugliemotti. He believed the doctrines of Aquinas to be the only means to reconcile science and faith. Nardini was a founding member of the Accademia Romana di San Tommaso in 1879. Between 1901 and 1902 he also founded an astronomical observatory on via di Pie' di Marmo in Rome. In 1904 as Provincial of the Order's Roman province he proposed that the college be transformed into an international university. This was accomplished in 1908 by his successors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-nardini_res-988c6266-a2ba-11e2-9d1b-00271042e8d9_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=Treccani - La cultura italiana - Treccani, il portale del sapere}}</ref>

[[File:Hydrochronometer by Embriaco (total view with signs).jpg|thumb|G. B. Embriaco's hydrochronometer in the Villa Borghese gardens, patterned after his original of 1867 in the courtyard of the College of Saint Thomas]] Gian Battista Embriaco (Ceriana 1829 – Rome 1903) taught at the college.<ref>''The Dominicans'' by Benedict M. Ashley, ch. 8, "The Age of Compromise (1800s), Revival and Expansion", {{cite web |url=http://domcentral.org/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |title=The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great » Page n… |access-date=8 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414155628/http://domcentral.org/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |archive-date=14 April 2013 }} 20 March 2013</ref> Embriaco was the inventor in 1867 of the hydrochronometer,<ref>[http://www.casanatense.it/index.php/it/gli-editoriali/72-stampe-e-disegni/153-orologi.html?showall=1 Accessed 20 March 2013: "È infatti del 1867 l'invenzione dell'idrocronometro, dovuta al padre domenicano Giovanni Battista Embriaco, che attese ai suoi studi di meccanica applicata all'orologeria nella solitudine del convento della Minerva."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205090500/http://www.casanatense.it/index.php/it/gli-editoriali/72-stampe-e-disegni/153-orologi.html?showall=1 |date=5 December 2014 }}</ref> examples of which were built in Rome, first in the college's courtyard at the Minerva, and later on the Pincian Hill and in the Villa Borghese gardens.<ref>''Memorie dei più insigni pittori, scultori e architetti domenicani'', Vol. 2 By V. Fortunato Marchese,513, https://books.google.com/books?id=ff9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513 Accessed 20 March 2013</ref> Embriaco had presented two prototypes of his invention at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867 winning prizes and acclaim.<ref>:it:Idrocronometro Accessed 20 March 2013</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}}<ref>"Storia del Progetto" https://www.comune.roma.it/wps/portal/pcr?contentId=NEW148084&jp_pagecode=newsview.wp&ahew=contentId:jp_pagecode Accessed 20 March. 2013</ref>

The suppression of religious orders soon hampered the mission of the college. During the French occupation of Rome, from 1797 to 1814, the college was in declined and briefly closed its doors from 1810 to 1815.<ref>''In This Light Which Gives Light'', by C. Renz, 43. https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA43 Accessed 24 April 2011.</ref> The Order gained control of the convent once again in 1815.

By the late eighteenth century, professors of the college had begun to follow the Wolffianism and Eclecticism of Austrian Jesuit, Sigismund von Storchenau and Jaime Balmes with the aim of engaging modern thought. In response to this trend the General Chapter of 1838 again ordered the revival of Thomism and the use of the Summa Theologica at the College of St. Thomas.<ref name="domcentral.org">''The Dominicans'' by Benedict M. Ashley, Chapter 9, "The Age of Compromise" {{cite web |url=http://domcentral.org/blog/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |title=The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great » the Age of Compromise (1800s) |access-date=20 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213125723/http://domcentral.org/blog/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |archive-date=13 December 2013 }} Accessed 14 August 2013</ref>

At the Minerva the Master of the Order issued a directive to re-establish the plan of study that had been in force before the French Revolution following the manual of Salvatore Roselli (1777–83) and prescribing a 5-year study of the ''Summa theologica'' for all degree candidates. The Minerva ''studium generale'' was refurbished, and a new era of Thomism was initiated led by Tommaso Maria Zigliara and others.<ref>"A Remembrance of Pope Leo XIII: The Encyclical ''Aeterni Patris''", in ''100 Years of Thomism'', 1981, The Center For Thomistic Studies, 14-15.</ref>

After the Capture of Rome, the final act of the Risorgimento, the Dominicans were expropriated by the Italian government in virtue of law 1402 of 19 June 1873 and the ''Collegium Divi Thomae de Urbe'' was forced to leave the Minerva. The college continued its work at various locations in Rome.<ref>''The Dominicans'', Benedict M. Ashley, O. P., {{cite web |url=http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom08.htm |title=Ashley/Dominicans: 8 the Age of Compromise 1800s |access-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321191455/http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom08.htm |archive-date=21 March 2012 }} Accessed 26 April 2011</ref> Rector Zigliara, who taught at the college from 1870 to 1879, with his professors and students took refuge with the Fathers of the Holy Ghost at the French College in Rome, where lectures continued.<ref name="newadvent.org">Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15759a.htm Accessed 24 May 2011</ref> In 1899 the college was functioning in the Palazzo Sinibaldi, adjacent to the French College and near the Convent of the Minerva.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=dfHotBv5kEAC&pg=PA365 Accessed 18 January 2015, Revue du clergé français, 1899, p. 365</ref>

[[File:Tommaso Maria Zigliara.jpg|thumb|Tommaso Maria Zigliara]] Zigliara was a member of seven Roman congregations, including the Congregation of Studies and was a founding member of the Accademia Romana di San Tommaso in 1879. Zigliara's fame as a scholar at the forefront of the Neo-Thomist revival was widespread in Rome and abroad. "French, Italian, German, English, and American bishops were eager to put some of their most promising students and young professors under his tuition."<ref name="newadvent.org"/>

The mid-19th-century revival of Thomism, sometimes called "Neo-Scholasticism" or "Neo-Thomism," had its origins in Italy. "The direct initiator of the neo-Scholastic movement in Italy was Gaetano Sanseverino, (1811–1865), a canon at Naples."<ref>Joseph Louis Perrier, ''The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century'', "Chapter IX: The Neo-Scholastic Revival in Italy", {{cite web |url=http://www3.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/perrier9.html |title=Jacques Maritain Center: Revival 9 |access-date=1 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009074833/http://www3.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/perrier9.html |archive-date=9 October 2015 }} Accessed 1 August 2013</ref> Other prominent figures include Zigliara, Josef Kleutgen, and Giovanni Cornoldi. The revival emphasizes the interpretative tradition of Aquinas' great commentators such as Capréolus, Cajetan, and John of St. Thomas. Its focus, however, is less exegetical and more concerned with carrying out the program of deploying a rigorously worked out system of Thomistic metaphysics in a wholesale critique of modern philosophy. Zigliara was instrumental in recovering the authentic tradition of Thomism from the influence of a tradition of the Jesuits' that was "strongly colored by the interpretation of their own great master Francisco Suárez (d. 1617), who had attempted to reconcile the Aristotelianism of Thomas with the Platonism of Scotus" <ref>Benedict Ashley, ''The Dominicans'' http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15759a.htm Accessed 24 May 2011; James Burtchaell, ''Catholic Theories of Biblical Inspiration Since 1810: A Review and Critique'', ''Theology'', Cambridge 1969, 130. https://books.google.com/books?id=dOo7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA130 Accessed 8 March 2013</ref>

In response to the disarray of religious educational institutions Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical ''Aeterni Patris'' of 4 August 1879 called for the renewal of Christian philosophy and particularly the doctrines of Aquinas:<blockquote>We exhort you, venerable brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences.<ref>''Aeterni Patris'', section 31, https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_04081879_aeterni-patris_en.html Accessed August 29, 2012</ref></blockquote> Pope Leo XIII's encyclical ''Aeterni Patris'' of 1879 was a great impetus to the revival of neo scholastic Thomism. On 15 October 1879 Leo created the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and ordered publication of a critical edition of the complete works of the ''doctor angelicus''. Superintendence of the "leonine edition" was entrusted to Zigliara. Leo also founded the ''Angelicum's'' Faculty of Philosophy in 1882 and its Faculty of Canon Law in 1896. The college began once again to gain status and influence. Under Pope Leo XIII Zigliara contributed to the encyclicals ''Aeterni Patris'' and ''Rerum novarum''.<ref>Benedict Ashley, ''The Dominicans'', 9 "The Age of Compromise," {{cite web |url=http://domcentral.org/blog/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |title=The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great » the Age of Compromise (1800s) |access-date=20 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213125723/http://domcentral.org/blog/the-age-of-compromise-1800s/ |archive-date=13 December 2013 }} Accessed 19, 2013; ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', https://books.google.com/books?id=3FEsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA759 Accessed 26 April 2011</ref>

===1906: ''Pontificium Collegium Divi Thomae de Urbe''=== [[File:Blessed Hyacinthe Cormier OP.jpg|thumb|Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, seated in the middle. To his right sits Pio Alberto Del Corona, the Bishop of San Miniato.]]

In response to the call for a renewal of Thomism sounded by ''Aeterni Patris'' rectors Tommaso Maria Zigliara (1833–1893), Alberto Lepidi (1838–1922), and Sadoc Szabó had brought the college to a high degree of excellence. Under the leadership of Szabó the number of subjects taught at the ''Angelicum'' included archeology, geology, paleography, Christian art, biology, mathematics, physics, and astronomy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA45|title=In This Light Which Gives Light: A History of the College of St. Albert the Great (1930-1980)|first=Christopher J.|last=Renz|date=8 February 2017|publisher=Dominican School|via=Google Books|isbn=9781883734183}}</ref>

At the dawn of the twentieth century the Dominican conception of intellectual formation at Rome was again transformed. The general chapters of 1895 (Avila) and 1901 (Ghent) had called for the expansion of the College of St. Thomas to meet the growing educational needs in the modern world. The Chapter of 1904 (Viterbo) directed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier (1832–1916), newly elected Master General of the Order of Preachers, to develop the college into a ''studium generalissimum'' directly under his authority for the entire Dominican Order:<blockquote>Romae erigatur collegium studiorum Ordinis generalissimum, auctoritate magistri generalis immediate subjectum, in quo floreat vita regularis, et ad quod mittantur fratres ex omnibus provinciis.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts of the General Chapter of 1904|page=53}}, reported in [https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA43 Renz, 43, op. cit.] Accessed 9 June 2011</ref></blockquote> Building on the legacy of the Order's first Roman ''studium'' at the priory of Santa Sabina founded in 1222 and the ''studium general'' that had sprung from it by 1426 at Santa Maria sopra Minerva and that in 1577 became the College of Saint Thomas, Cormier stated his intention to establish this new ''studium generalissimum'' as the principal vehicle of dissemination of orthodox Thomistic thought for both Dominicans and secular clergy.

In 1904 Pope Pius X allowed diocesan seminarians to attend the college. He elevated the college to the status of ''Pontificium'' on 2 May 1906, making its degrees equivalent to those of the world's other pontifical universities.<ref>See [https://www.vatican.va/archive/ass/documents/ASS%2039%20%5B1906%5D%20-%20ocr.pdf Acta Sanctae Sedis], ''Ephemerides Romanae'', vol. 39, 1906. Accessed 9 June 2011; [https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA43 Renzi, op. cit. 43] Accessed 24 April 2011</ref> By Apostolic Letter of 8 November 1908, signed on 17 November, the Pope transformed the college into the ''Collegium Pontificium Internationale Angelicum'', located on Via San Vitale 15. Cormier developed the ''Angelicum'' until his death in 1916, establishing it principal guidelines,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA44 Renz, op. cit. 44] Accessed 24 April 2011</ref> giving it his motto as Master General, ''caritas veritatis'', "the charity of truth."<ref>{{cite web|title=Address of Fr. Joseph Agius, ''Rector Magnificus'' of the ''Angelicum'' on the occasion of the presentation of the Alumni Achievement Award to His Emminence John Patrick Cardinal Foley, Grand Master of The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Saturday, 18 April 2009|url= https://angelicumnewsletter.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html|access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> Cormier, also noted for the spiritual quality of his retreats and powerful preaching, was declared Blessed by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994.

In the first half of the twentieth century ''Angelicum'' professors Édouard Hugon, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange and others carried on Leo's call for a Thomist revival. The core philosophical commitments of the revival, which after Zigliara traditionally are those of the ''Angelicum'', were later summarized in "[http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aversa/scholastic/24Thomisticpart2.htm Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses]" approved by Pope Pius X.<ref name="Feser">{{cite web|title=The Thomistic tradition (Part 1)|url=https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/10/thomistic-tradition-part-i.html|author=Feser, Edward|date=15 October 2009|access-date=2 January 2011}}</ref> Due to its rejection of attempts to synthesize Thomism with non-Thomistic categories and assumptions neo-scholastic Thomism has sometimes been called "Strict Observance Thomism."<ref>For a characterization of Thomism of the strict observance see {{cite book|title=Ratzinger's Faith : The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI|author=Tracey Rowland|date=6 August 2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-162339-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-c-D6N0u3cC&q=strict&pg=PT48|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref>

In 1909 there were 26 professors. Beyond philosophy and theology subject included archeology, geology, paleography, Christian art, biology, mathematics, physics, and astronomy. In 1917 a professorship in ascetical and mystical theology was created at the ''Angelicum'' expressly for Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange. This was the first of its kind in the world, and Garrigou-Lagrange initiated courses in sacred art, mysticism, and aesthetics in 1918.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&pg=PA44|title=In This Light Which Gives Light: A History of the College of St. Albert the Great (1930-1980)|first=Christopher J.|last=Renz|date=8 February 2017|publisher=Dominican School|via=Google Books|isbn=9781883734183}}</ref> Marie-Alain Couturier studied with Garrigou at the Angelicum from 1930 to 1932 before going on to have an instrumental role in liturgical art ventures such as Henri Matisse's Vence Chapel and Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, and the Dominican priory of Sainte Marie de La Tourette.<ref>http://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/CouturierCollection.pdf Accessed 4 December 2014; {{cite web|title=Almost Religious: Couturier, LeCorbusier and the Monastery of La Tourette|url=http://www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/almost_religious_couturier_lecorbusier_and_the_monastery_of_la_tourette/|access-date=4 December 2014|publisher=Institute of Sacred Architecture}}</ref>

Garrigou-Lagrange has been called "torchbearer of orthodox Thomism" against Modernism in the period between World War II and the Cold War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/le-eredita-2-i-postumi-della-crisi-modernista_(Cristiani-d'Italia)/|title=Treccani - La cultura italiana - Treccani, il portale del sapere}}</ref> He is commonly held to have influenced the decision in 1942 to place the privately circulated book ''Une école de théologie: le Saulchoir'' (Étiolles 1937) by Marie-Dominique Chenu on the Vatican's "Index of Forbidden Books" as the culmination of a polemic within the Dominican Order between the ''Angelicum'' supporters of a speculative scholasticism and the French revival Thomists who were more attentive to historical hermeneutics, such as Yves Congar. Congar's ''Chrétiens désunis'' was also suspected of modernism because its methodology derived more from religious experience than from syllogistic analysis.<ref>{{cite web|title=Treccani, il portale del sapere |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/le-eredita-2-i-postumi-della-crisi-modernista_(Cristiani-d'Italia)/|access-date=10 September 2013}}; {{cite book|author=Y. Congar|title=Chrétiens désunis. Principes d'un œcuménisme catholique|location=Paris|date=1937}}; {{cite encyclopedia|last1=McBrien |first1=Richard P. |encyclopedia=The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism|date=12 May 1995 |page=304|isbn=978-0-06-065338-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7DmZB8fy_wcC&pg=PA303|access-date=13 November 2012}}; {{cite book|title=Praeambula fidei|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3FY1gtVu37sC&pg=PA38|access-date=10 September 2013|author=Ralph McInerny| date=October 2006 |page=38 | publisher=CUA Press | isbn=978-0-8132-1458-0 }}</ref>

Noted philosopher and theologian Santiago Maria Ramirez y Ruiz de Dulanto (1891–1967) completed his licentiate and doctorate in philosophy at the ''Angelicum'' from 1913 to 1917 with a dissertation entitled ''De quidditate Incarnationis'', becoming lector on 27 June 1917 and teaching there from 1917 to 1920.<ref>''Enciclopedia GER'', {{cite web |url=http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=2907&cat=biografiasuelta |title=Cabecera |access-date=2 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210015538/http://canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=2907&cat=biografiasuelta |archive-date=10 December 2007 }} Accessed 2 August 2013</ref> Ramirez relates that he was fortunate during his student years to hear Pope Pius X deliver a talk to the professors and students at the ''Angelicum'' on 28 June 1914 in which the Pontiff extolled Aquinas' doctrines above those of all others,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wkt3EaTQYMUC&dq=%22ipsemet&pg=PA50|access-date=24 February 2015|title=De Auctoritate Doctrinali S. Thomae Aquinatis|author=Santiago María Ramírez|date=1952 |pages=50–51}}</ref> and another talk delivered by Pope Pius XI at the ''Angelicum'' on 12 December 1924 in which he reaffirmed the doctrinal authority of St. Thomas Aquinas.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Xenia Thomistica|volume=III|pages=599–600|title=Allocutio ad Professores et alumnos Instituti "Angelicum"}}; {{cite book|title=De Auctoritate Doctrinali S. Thomae Aquinatis|author=Santiago María Ramírez|year=1952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wkt3EaTQYMUC&pg=PA160|page=16-|access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref>

29 June 1923 on the occasion of the sixth centenary of the canonization of Thomas Aquinas Pius XI's encyclical ''Studiorum ducem'' singled out the Pontifical Angelicum College as the official ''sedes Thomae'':<blockquote>It will be fitting...that the institutes where sacred studies are cultivated express their holy joy, before all the Pontifical Angelicum College where Thomas could be said to dwell in his own house, and then all the other ecclesiastical schools that are in Rome.<ref name="Renz, 44">Renz, 44, op. cit. Accessed 9 June 2011; {{cite web|title=Studiorum Ducem|quote=Par erit autem hanc almam Urbem, in qua Magisterium Sacri Palatii aliquandiu gessit Aquinas, ad haec agenda solemnia principem exsistere: sanctaeque laetitiae significationibus ante omnia Pontificium Collegium Angelicum, ubi Thomam tamquam domi suae habitare dixeris, tum quae praeterea Romae adsunt Clericorum Athenaea ceteris sacrorum studiorum domiciliis praestare|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19230629_studiorum-ducem_lt.html|access-date=24 April 2012}}</ref></blockquote> The reputation of the college during this period was summed up by one of the ''Angelicum's'' most illustrious alumni and faculty members in the mid-twentieth century, Cornelio Fabro, who called the ''Angelicum'' the "avant-garde of the doctrinal mission of the Dominican Order in Rome, and of traditional Thomism whose distinguished exponents included T. Zigliara, A. Lepidi, T. Pègues, E. Hugon, A. Zacchi, R. Garrigou-Lagrange, and M. Cordovani."<ref>C. Fabro, "Breve introduzione al tomismo," Roma, 1960, Ch. VII. "...si fece promotore, come avanguardia della missione dottrinale dell'Ordine domenicano nell'Urbe, del tomismo tradizionale nel quale si distinsero il card. T. Zigliara, A. Lepidi, T. Pègues, E. Hugon, A. Zacchi, R. Garrigou-Lagrange (n. nel 1877), M. Cordovani (1883-1950). " {{cite web |url=http://www.storialibera.it/epoca_medioevale/XII_XIII_secolo/san_tommaso_d_aquino/articolo.php?id=2072&titolo=Scolastica%20e%20tomismo |title=Scolastica e tomismo |access-date=27 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718135210/http://www.storialibera.it/epoca_medioevale/XII_XIII_secolo/san_tommaso_d_aquino/articolo.php?id=2072&titolo=Scolastica%20e%20tomismo |archive-date=18 July 2013 }} Accessed 27 April 2012</ref> The notoriety of the college was further fostered by annual celebrations of the Feast of its patron St. Thomas Aquinas including a "preaching tridiuum", a pontifical Mass and an academic symposium at the ''Angelicum''<ref name="Renz, 44b">Renz, 44, op. cit. Accessed 24 April 2012;{{cite book|last1=Camporeale |first1=Salvatore I. |title=Lorenzo Valla: umanesimo, riforma e controriforma : studi e testi|date=2002 |at=pages 132–3, note 11|publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |isbn=978-88-8498-026-7 |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=IN1oGqYCnacC&pg=PA132|access-date=8 February 2013|quote=Sulla festa in onore di S. Tommaso in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, in Roma, vedi la documentaziomne riferita da Kristeller, ''Medieval Aspects'', cit,. p. 61, nota 114. La festa liturgica di S. Tommaso è stata solennemente celebrata come "cappella cardinalizia" sino ai tempi recenti (1967), come già si usava, con ogni probabilità, fin dai tempi del Valla e anteriormente al periodo indicato da Johannes Burckhardus nel ''Liber notarum'' e nel ''Diatrium'', citati da Kristeller, ivi, p. 61. Un profilo storico di questa festività minervitana si trova in A. Zucchi (+1956), ''Il Collegio di S. Tommaso d'Aquino alla Minerva'', inedito presso l'Atch. Conv. della Minerva, cap. IX: "La festa di S. Tommaso e il Collegio della Minerva", ff. 61-71."}}</ref> 8 June 1923 Szabó founded ''Unio thomistica'', an association of ''Angelicum'' students and alumni dedicated to defense of Thomistic doctrine. Its publication originally entitled ''Unio thomistica'' would continue under the title ''Angelicum'', a trimesterly journal with articles in Italian, French, English, German, and Spanish treating theology, philosophy, canon law, and social sciences.<ref name="Renz, 48-49">Renz, 48–49, op. cit. Accessed 24 April 2012</ref>

[[File:Vasi149.jpg|thumb|420px|An 18th-century view of the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus at center left, and the former Dominican convent that now houses the ''Angelicum'' at center right|center]] The year 1926 saw the ''Angelicum'' become an institute with its change of name to ''Pontificium Institutum Internationale Angelicum''. During the academic year 1927–28 ''Angelicum'' professor Mariano Cordovani began a ''Philosophy Circle'' that continued into the 1960s as a forum for laity to explore contemporary philosophical issues.<ref name="Renz, 49">Renz, 49, op. cit. Accessed 24 April 2012</ref>

In 1927 the Italian government decided to sell the former convent of Santi Domenico e Sisto. The convent, which had been established by Pope Pius V for Dominican nuns in 1575, was expropriated by the Italian government on 9 September 1871 in virtue of the law of suppression of religious orders. Blessed Buenaventura García de Paredes, Master General of the Order, seeing the opportunity to recuperate the Dominican patrimony, suggested to Benito Mussolini that selling the convent to the Order would return the property to its original owners, and that it could be used to house the ''Angelicum''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=f81okJjunccC&pg=PA419 Accessed 3-13, 2013 See also the inscription on the left wall of the entrance to the ''Angelicum'':AEDES SS. DOMINICI ET XISTI SANCTIMONIALIBUS ORDINIS PRAEDICATORUM EX S. PII V PONTIF. MAX. LIBERALITATE ERECTAS FR. BONAVENTURAE G. PAREDES OLIM FAMILIAE DOMINICANAE MODERATORIS SEDULA CURA REDEMPTAS FR. MARTINUS STAN. GILLET MAGISTER GENERALIS AULIS PERAMPLIS EXSTRUCTIS ET OMNI CULTV ADDITO TULLIO PASSARELLI ARCHITECTO INSTAURAVIT INGENTI ORDINIS IMPENDIO AUSPICIIS PII XI PONT. MAX. ATHAENAEVM ANGELICUM A FR. HYACINTHO M. CORMIER AD S. VITALIS AEDIFICATUM UNA CUM CORPORE VEN. FUNDATORIS HIC OPPORTUNE TRANSTULIT. XVII KAL. DEC. A D. MCMXXXII]</ref>

By decree of 2 June 1928 the Italian Minister of Justice authorized the College of St. Thomas to purchase from the Italian State for the agreed price of nine million lire (L. 9,000,000) the complex of buildings constituting the former convent of Saints Dominic and Sixtus <ref>{{cite journal|author=Vittorio Vidotti|title=Il recupero delle proprietà ecclesiastiche a Roma prima e dopo il Concordato|journal=Contribuit allo studio delle trasformazioni urbane e della proprietà immobiliare a Roma dopo il 1870}}, {{cite book|author=Vittorio Vidotti|title=Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica|volume= XVII|issue=1|date=2005|pages=107–161|url=http://www.maurizioturco.it/bddb/2004-06-25-ii-congresso-ais.html|access-date=23 July 2013}}</ref> In this way Paredes activated Cormier's plan for the ''Angelicum'' to be established at a site whose amplitude was more fitting to its new status.

In 1930 Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain were the first two philosophers to receive honorary doctorates from the ''Angelicum''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Piero Viotto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aonOg8KLOdIC&pg=PA38|title=Grandi amicizie: i Maritain e i loro contemporanei| date=2008 |page=3| publisher=Città Nuova | isbn=978-88-311-7340-7 |access-date=28 February 2016}} {{cite book|author=Jean Leclercq|title=Di grazia in grazia: memorie|date=1993 |page=60|publisher=Editoriale Jaca Book |isbn=978-88-16-40330-7 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jxKnMfTj81AC&pg=PA60|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref>

For the academic year 1928–1929 Paredes celebrated the inaugural Mass in the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus and Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange gave the solemn inaugural lecture.<ref>http://www.es.catholic.net/santoral/articulo.php?id=38310 Accessed 26 May 2012 {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> Because the convent buildings required extensive renovation classes were not held there until 1932.

From 1928 to 1932 the convent was renovated to house classrooms, an ''aula magna'' and an ''aula minor'', amphitheaters with seating capacities of 1,100 and 350 respectively. In November 1932 the ''Angelicum'' opened its doors at the appropriately more extensive complex of buildings comprising the ancient Dominican convent of Saints Dominic and Sixtus.

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli the future Pope Pius XII gave a lecture at the college entitled "La Presse et L'Apostolat" on 17 April 1936.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/22560/1/EC55868.PDF |title=Accessed 4 December 2014; "La Presse et L'apostolat: discours prononce au College Angelique le 17 Avril, 1936" Paris : Bonne Presse, 1936 |access-date=8 December 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190413/http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/22560/1/EC55868.PDF |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The ''Angelicum'' changed names once again in 1942 becoming the ''Pontificium Athenaeum Internationale Angelicum''.

In 1951 the Institute of Social Sciences was founded within the Faculty of Philosophy by Raimondo Spiazzi (1918–2002). Spiazzi, a prolific author and editor of the works of Aquinas, completed his doctorate in Sacred Theology at the ''Angelicum'' in 1947 with a dissertation entitled '' "Il cristianesimo perfezione dell'uomo''. Spiazzi directed the Institute of Social Sciences until 1957 and continued teaching there until 1972.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://win.scienze-politiche.org/preaching%20Justice/pdf%20preching%20Justice/11.pdf | title=Founder of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Angelicum: Raimondo Spiazzi (1918–2002) | access-date=26 May 2012 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717105021/http://win.scienze-politiche.org/preaching%20Justice/pdf%20preching%20Justice/11.pdf | archive-date=17 July 2014}} Accessed 25 May 2012; http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/lofi/Dedicato-al-grande-e-venerabile-padre-Raimondo-Spiazzi-O-P-/D8350616.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222041530/http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/lofi/Dedicato-al-grande-e-venerabile-padre-Raimondo-Spiazzi-O-P-/D8350616.html |date=22 February 2014 }} Accessed 25 May 2012</ref> This Institute was established as the Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) in 1974. Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec, leading exponent of the Lublin School of Philosophy in Poland, received a doctorate in theology from the ''Angelicum'' in 1948.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131213180641/http://win.scienze-politiche.org/preaching%20Justice/pdf%20preching%20Justice/13.pdf Accessed 11 June 2012]}}</ref>

In 1950 the ''Angelicum's'' Institute of Spirituality was founded by Paul-Pierre Philippe within the Faculty of Theology to promote scientific and systematic study of ascetical and mystical theology, and to offer preparation for spiritual directors. The institute was approved by the Congregation for Catholic Education on 1 May 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teologia.pust.it/index.php/en/programmi/istituto-di-spiritualita|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218035711/http://teologia.pust.it/index.php/en/programmi/istituto-di-spiritualita|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 February 2012|title=Istituto di Spiritualità}}</ref> The poet Paul Murray was director,<ref>[http://vocations.op.org.au/index.php/latestnews/352-new-master-in-sacred-theology Accessed 30 May 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614102640/http://vocations.op.org.au/index.php/latestnews/352-new-master-in-sacred-theology |date=14 June 2013 }}</ref> followed by Michael Sherwin, OP, professor of Moral Theology at the ''Angelicum''.

===1963: ''Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a Sancto Thoma Aquinate in Urbe''=== Enrollment climbed from 120 in 1909 to over 1,000 during the 1960s.<ref>William Hinnebusch, O. P., The Dominicans, Society of St. Paul, 1975. {{cite web |url=http://www.domcentral.org/trad/shorthistory/default.htm |title=Wm. A. Hinnebusch, O.P.: The Dominicans, A Short History |access-date=23 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722065750/http://www.domcentral.org/trad/shorthistory/default.htm |archive-date=22 July 2011}}. Accessed on 22 April 2011</ref> During the tenure of Aniceto Fernández as Master of the Order of Preachers (1962–1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domcentral.org/blog/ecumenists-1900s/|title=Ecumenists (1900s)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130816193721/http://domcentral.org/blog/ecumenists-1900s/|archive-date=16 August 2013}}</ref> and the rectorate of Raymond Sigmond (1961–1964)<ref>''My Journal of the Council'', by Yves Congar, https://books.google.com/books?id=MlIYG3_oaM4C&pg=PA49\ Accessed 23 August 2013</ref> Pope John XXIII visited the ''Angelicum''<ref>''L'osservatore Romano'', "A colloquio con padre Joseph Agius, rettore dell'Angelicum", 9 April 2008, https://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/interviste/2008/083q04c1.html Accessed 11 March 2013</ref> on 7 March 1963, the feast of the university's patron Saint Thomas Aquinas and with the ''motu proprio'' ''Dominicanus Ordo'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS%2055%20[1963]%20-%20ocr.pdf |url-status=dead |pages=205–208 |title=Acta Apostolicae Sedis 55 (1963) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327072014/https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS%2055%20[1963]%20-%20ocr.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2010 |access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> raised the ''Angelicum'' to the rank of pontifical university. Thereafter it would be known as the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the city ({{langx|la|Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a Sancto Thoma Aquinate in Urbe}}).<ref>https://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/interviste/2008/083q04c1.html Accessed 5 February 2013, http://toninomeneghetti.iobloggo.com/tag/ontospychologyAccessed 5 February 2013 "On 7 March 1963, Pope Giovanni XXIII came to the Angelicum to celebrate the passage from Ateneo Angelicum to University: Pontificia Universitas Studiorum Sancti Tomae Aquinatis in Urbe."</ref>

On 29 November 1963, Egyptian scholar and peritus at Vatican II for Christian–Islamic relations Georges Anawati delivered a lecture entitled at the ''Angelicum'' "L'Islam a l'heure du Concile: prolegomenes a un dialogue islamo-chretien." <ref>Printed in ''Angelicum'' 41, 1964, 145-68; See also http://nwcu.org/2012%20Workshop/2012Documents/JohnBorelli-NWCU2012Keynote.pdf {{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Accessed 29 August 2013</ref>

On 19 April 1974 Pope Paul VI delivered an allocution in the ''Angelicum's'' Aula Magna as part of the International Congress of the International Society of St. Thomas Aquinas celebrated on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of the ''Doctor Angelicus''. The Pontif described Aquinas as a teacher of the art of thinking well and expounded his doctrine proposing Aquinas as an unsurpassed master.<ref>Abelardo Lobato, "The Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas: History and Mission," Anuario Filosófico, XXXIX/2 (2006), 309-327, 317-8 and 329-349, 229-30; Cfr. PAUL VI, Lumen Ecclesiae, 1; {{Cite web| url=http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/16163/1/1.%20LOBATO.pdf | title=The pontifical academy of St. Thomas Aquinas: history and mission | access-date=4 December 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108144628/http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/16163/1/1.%20LOBATO.pdf | archive-date=8 January 2014}} Accessed 4 December 2013; {{Cite web| url=http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/16164/1/2.%20MARTINEZ.pdf | title="In dulcedine societatis quaerere veritatem": the international society of St. Thomas Aquinas | access-date=4 December 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108144704/http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/16164/1/2.%20MARTINEZ.pdf | archive-date=8 January 2014}} Accessed 4 December 2013</ref>

On 17 November 1979, one year into his papacy, Pope John Paul II visited his alma mater to deliver an address marking the first centenary of the encyclical Aeterni Patris. The Pontiff reaffirmed the centrality of Aquinas' thought for the Church and the unique role of the ''Angelicum'', where Aquinas is "as in his own home (''tamquam in domo sua'')," in carrying on the Thomist philosophical and theological tradition.<ref>Discorso di Giovanni Paolo II al Pontificio Ateneo ''Angelicum'' https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1979/november/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19791117_angelicum_sp.html Accessed 21 August 2013</ref>

On 24 November 1994, four days after beatifying Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, Pope John Paul II visited the ''Angelicum'' and gave an address to faculty and students on the occasion of the dedication of the university's ''Aula Magna'' in his honor.<ref>"Discorso di Giovanni Paolo II ai professori e agli alunni della pontificia universita` "San Tommaso D'Aquino" Giovedì, 24 novembre 1994, https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1994/november/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19941124_universita-san-tommaso_it.html Accessed 19 August 2013</ref>

On 18 May 2020, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture was established within the Faculty of Philosophy. The Institute was founded thanks to the support of private donors. It carries out several research, academic, educational and cultural projects to deepen knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual heritage of the pope and foster understanding of key problems facing the Church and the world today, in the light of his teaching. The Institute offers the JP2 Studies program – a one-year, interdisciplinary diploma for clergy, religious and laity. The professors teaching at the JP2 Studies program are, i.e.: Helen Alford, O.P., George Weigel, Jarosław Kupczak, O.P., Rémi Brague.

===The ''Angelicum'' today=== Today the faculty and students of the ''Angelicum'' strive to be "modern disciples of Thomas Aquinas", "accepting all the radical changes" of the modern world "but without compromise" to the ideals of their patron Thomas Aquinas.<ref>''Angelicum'' webpage. http://www.pust.it/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314052843/http://pust.it/ |date=14 March 2018}} Accessed 20 August 2013</ref> ''Angelicum'' alumnus and famed historian and philosopher James A. Weisheipl notes that since the time of Aquinas "Thomism was always alive in the Dominican Order, small as it was after the ravages of the Reformation, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic occupation."<ref>[http://domcentral.org/blog/the-revival-of-thomism-an-historical-survey-weisheipl/ “The Revival of Thomism: An Historical Survey," James Weisheipl, 1962.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927202339/http://domcentral.org/blog/the-revival-of-thomism-an-historical-survey-weisheipl/ |date=27 September 2013}}</ref> While outside the order Thomism has had varying fortunes, the ''Angelicum'' has played a central role throughout its history in preserving Thomism since the time of Aquinas' own activity at the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale''. Today the ''sedes Thomae'' continues to provide students and scholars with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the authentic Dominican Thomistic philosophical and theological tradition.

As of August 2014 the student body comprised approximately 1010 students coming from 95 countries. About one half of the ''Angelicum's'' students are enrolled in the faculty of theology.

As of August 2014 the student body consisted of approximately 29% women, 71% men. Of these, approximately 24% were lay, 27% were diocesan clerical, and 49% were members of religious orders. Moreover, 30% of the student body hailed from North America, 25% from Europe, 21% from Asia, 12% from Africa, 11% from Latin America, and 1% from Oceania.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/TheNewmanGuide/RecommendedColleges/PontificalUniversityofSt.ThomasAquinas.aspx |title=Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas |access-date=21 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506045821/http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/TheNewmanGuide/RecommendedColleges/PontificalUniversityofSt.ThomasAquinas.aspx |archive-date=6 May 2015 }} Accessed 21 May 2015</ref>

Some comparatively recent notable figures associated with the ''Angelicum'' include Cornelio Fabro, Jordan Aumann, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Aidan Nichols, Wojciech Giertych, Theologian of the Pontifical Household under Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, and Bishop Charles Morerod, past ''Rector Magnificus'' of the ''Angelicum'' and former Secretary of the International Theological Commission, Alejandro Crosthwaite, OP, Dean of the ''Angelicum'' Faculty of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020603161911/http://www.scienze-politiche.org/ Social Sciences]}}, and Consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and Robert Christian, Vice-Dean of the faculty of theology, professor of sacramental theology and ecclesiology, and Consultant to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Dr. Donna Orsuto, professor of spirituality, is rector of the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas and was recently created a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict.

==Academics== ===Quality and ranking=== The ''Angelicum'' is one of the world's Pontifical universities. Specifically, a pontifical university addresses "Christian revelation and disciplines correlative to the evangelical mission of the Church as set out in the apostolic constitution, ''Sapientia christiana''".<ref name="vatican.va">https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_constitutions/documents/papa-francesco_costituzione-ap_20171208_veritatis-gaudium.html Accessed 10 April 2020; See also ''Sapientia Christiana'', Section VI, Article 39</ref><ref name="avepro.va">Agenzia della Santa Sede per la Valutazione e la Promozione della Qualità delle Università e Facoltà Ecclesiastiche (AVEPRO), http://www.avepro.va/ Accessed 1 November. 2012</ref>

In distinction to secular or other Catholic universities, which address a broad range of disciplines, Ecclesiastical or Pontifical universities are "usually composed of three principal ecclesiastical faculties, theology, philosophy, and canon law, and at least one other faculty". Current international quality ranking services do not have rankings for pontifical universities that are specific to their curricula.

Since 19 September 2003 the Holy See has taken part in the Bologna Process, a series of meetings and agreements between European states designed to foster comparable quality standards in higher education, and in the "Bologna Follow-up Group".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avepro.glauco.it/pls/cec/v3_s2ew_consultazione.mostra_paginat?id_pagina=282&target=0 |title=The Holy See's Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties: Who we are|access-date=14 March 2013 |date=1 May 2010 |quote=The Holy See's adhesion to the Bologna Process (which took place on 19 September 2003, during a meeting of the European Union Ministers of Education in Berlin) was determined by its desire to pursue and achieve certain objectives included in the Bologna Process }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/avepro/documents/rc_avepro_20100720_profile_it.html |title=Bologna Process - European Higher Education, Holy See is "Full member of the Bologna Process since 2003 |access-date=14 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ehea.info/country-details.aspx?countryId=21 |title=Bologna Process; European Higher Education Area |access-date=14 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608043619/http://www.ehea.info/country-details.aspx?countryId=21 |archive-date=8 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Holy See's ''Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties'' (AVEPRO) was established on 19 September 2007 by the Pope Benedict XVI "to promote and develop a culture of quality within the academic institutions that depend directly on the Holy See and ensure they possess internationally valid quality criteria."<ref name="avepro.va"/>

===Academic authorities=== *Grand Chancellor, the Master General of the Order of Preachers. On 13 July 2019, Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III was elected the 88th Master General of the Order of Preachers at the 291st General Chapter, held in Biên Hòa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dominicos.org/noticia/gerard-timoner-nuevo-maestro-de-la-orden/ |title=El filipino Fr. Gerard Timoner elegido maestro de la Orden de Predicadores |website=www.dominicos.org |date= 13 July 2019|access-date=23 July 2019}}</ref> *Rector Magnificus. Thomas Joseph White was appointed rector on 10 June 2021. He is the first American to serve in this office.<ref>{{Cite web|last=CNA|title=First American rector of Angelicum in Rome named|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247954/fr-thomas-joseph-white-named-first-american-rector-of-angelicum-in-rome|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Catholic News Agency|language=en}}</ref> *Vice-Rector *Deans of the Faculties *Heads of the Institutes *Administrator *Secretary General *Public Relations Officer *Prefect of the Library *University Chaplain

===Faculties and degrees=== In addition to the programs listed, which are in the Italian language, the ''Angelicum'' offers English programs in Philosophy and Theology for the first cycle, and part of the second and third cycles.<ref>Handbook of Studies, 2012-2013: [http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/272-ordine-degli-studi-aa-2012-2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927155052/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/272-ordine-degli-studi-aa-2012-2013|date=27 September 2013}} Accessed 15 March 2013</ref>

'''Theology'''<ref name="teologia.pust.it">{{cite web|url=http://teologia.pust.it/|title=Benvenuti sul sito della facoltà di Teologia - PUST|access-date=31 May 2012|archive-date=19 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619000819/http://teologia.pust.it/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *First Cycle: Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology, ''Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureatus'' (S.T.B.) *Second Cycle: Licentiate in Sacred Theology, ''Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus'' (S.T.L.) *Third Cycle: Doctorate in Sacred Theology, ''Sacrae Theologiae Doctoratus'' (S.T.D.)

Sections: *Biblical *Dogmatic *Moral *Thomistic *Spirituality *Ecumenism: The ''Angelicum'' is the only Pontifical university in Rome granted the right to offer advanced theology degrees in ecumenism. The ''Angelicum'' offers the licentiate degree in theology with a specialization in ecumenical studies.

Chairs of Learning:<ref name="teologia.pust.it"/> *The J.-M. Tillard Chair of Ecumenical Studies: The Tillard Chair was dedicated 25 February 2003 in honor of Dominican Jean-Marie Tillard,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/press/00/35pre.html|title=Jean-Marie Roger Tillard OP (1927-2000)}}</ref> one of the greatest exponents of post-conciliar ecumenical movement. Tillard studied philosophy at the ''Angelicum'' from 1952 to 1953 obtaining the doctorate degree with a thesis entitled ''Le bonheur selon la conception de saint Thomas d'Aquin''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipastorale.ca/ressources/partnr/varia/Jean-Marie%20Roger%20Tillard,%20o.p.%20(1927-2000).pdf|title = Montréal}}</ref> At Vatican II, Tillard served as a "peritus" for the Canadian bishops, and subsequently became a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. *The Non-Conventional Religions and Spiritualities Chair (RSNC) which promotes the study of modern and contemporary religious phenomena

'''Canon Law'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diritto.pust.it/|title=Benvenuti sul sito della facoltà di Diritto Canonico - PUST|access-date=15 March 2013|archive-date=15 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515033232/http://diritto.pust.it/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *First Cycle: Baccalaureate in Canon Law, ''Juris Canonici Baccalaureatus'' (J.C.B.) *Second Cycle: Licentiate in Canon Law, ''Iuris Canonici Licentiatus'' (J.C.L.) *Third Cycle: Doctorate in Canon Law, ''Iuris Canonici Doctoratus'' (J.C.D.)

'''Philosophy'''<ref>[http://pustphilo.com/pustphilo.php/ Accessed=18 March 2015] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217205407/http://pustphilo.com/pustphilo.php |date=17 February 2015 }}</ref> *First Cycle: Baccalaureate in Philosophy, ''Philosophiae Baccalaureatus'' (Ph.B.) *Second Cycle: Licentiate in Philosophy, ''Philosophiae Licentiatus'' (Ph.L.) *Third Cycle: Doctorate in Philosophy, ''Philosophiae Doctoratus'' (Ph.D.)

'''Social Sciences'''<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020603161911/http://www.scienze-politiche.org/ Social Sciences]}}</ref> *First Cycle: Baccalaureate in Social Sciences, ''Scientiarum Socialium Baccalaureatus'' *Second Cycle: Licentiate in Social Sciences, ''Scientiarum Socialium Licentiatus'' *Third Cycle: Doctorate in Social Sciences, ''Scientiarum Socialium Doctoratus''

Chairs of Learning: *The Cardinal Pavan Chair for Social Ethics: The Pavan Chair was established in honor of Italian Cardinal Pietro Pavan<ref>:it:Pietro Pavan, Accessed 15 March 2013</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}} to promote interdisciplinary research on social issues and problems especially in the realm of ethics and development of the social teaching of the Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://win.scienze-politiche.org/catedra_pavan1.htm#English|title=Cattedra Pavan|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104248/http://win.scienze-politiche.org/catedra_pavan1.htm#English|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Pavan was an expert on Catholic social teaching. He collaborated with Pope John XXIII especially on the encyclical ''Pacem in Terris''. The "Cardinal Pavan Chair for Social Ethics" was launched as part of the ''Angelicum'' 50th anniversary celebrations and to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of ''Pacem in Terris''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/13368/Papas-Places#.VHzXq6Mo7I0|title=Papa's Places in Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI Forum|date=14 November 2006 }}</ref>

===Aggregated institutions=== *Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit (USA)<ref>[http://www.aodonline.org/SHMS/SHMS.htm Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit (USA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029213530/http://www.aodonline.org/SHMS/SHMS.htm |date=29 October 2007 }}</ref>

===Affiliated institutions=== *Blackfriars Studium, Oxford (England)<ref>[http://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/studium_intro.php Blackfriars Studium, Oxford (England)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709200414/http://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/studium_intro.php |date=9 July 2013 }}</ref> *Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza (Italy)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegioalberoni.it/insegnamenti.php|title=Collegio Alberoni|access-date=15 April 2013|archive-date=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925015845/http://www.collegioalberoni.it/insegnamenti.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> *St. Charles Seminary, Nagpur (India)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dominicansindia.com/Mission/st%20charles%20seminary.htm|title=St. Charles Seminary, Nagpur (India)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706085458/http://www.dominicansindia.com/Mission/st%20charles%20seminary.htm|archive-date=6 July 2008}}</ref> *St. Mary's Priory, Dominican House of Studies, Tallaght (Ireland)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stmarys-tallaght.ie/portal/home|title=St. Mary's Priory – Website of St. Mary's Dominican Priory, Tallaght |date=3 December 2025 }}</ref> *St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin (Ireland), Dominican House of Studies – Studium, since 2000.<ref>[https://saintsavioursdublin.ie/studium/ Studium (House of Studies)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022141846/https://saintsavioursdublin.ie/studium/ |date=22 October 2023 }} St. Saviour's Church and Priory, Dublin.</ref> *St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie), New York (USA)<ref>[http://www.archny.org/seminary/st-josephs-seminary-dunwoodie/ St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie), New York (USA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015065641/http://archny.org/seminary/st-josephs-seminary-dunwoodie/ |date=15 October 2007 }}</ref> *Istituto Teologico De America Central Intercongregacional, S. Jose (Costa Rica) *Sacred Heart Institute, Gozo (Malta) *Dominican Institute, Ibadan (Nigeria)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diafrica.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031203203415/http://www.diafrica.org/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 December 2003|title=DIAfrica.org - Construction Advice for Home Owners}}</ref> *Centro de Estudio de los Dominicanos del Caribe, Bayamon (Puerto Rico) *Studio Filosofico Domenicano, Bologna (Italy)<ref>[http://www.studiofilosofico.it/primapagina/ Studio Filosofico Domenicano, Bologna (Italy)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002093818/http://www.studiofilosofico.it/primapagina/ |date=2 October 2011 }}</ref> {{in lang|it}} *Escola Dominicana de Teologia, Alto do Ipiranga, São Paulo (Brazil)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edt.edu.br/|title=Escola Dominicana de Teologia, Alto do Ipiranga, São Paulo (Brazil)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224041705/http://www.edt.edu.br/|archive-date=24 February 2011}}</ref> {{in lang|pt}} *Centro de Teologia Santo Domingo de Guzman, St. Domingo (Dominican Republic) *Saint John Seminary, Boston, MA (USA)

===Sponsored institutes=== *The Institute of Spirituality<ref>Handbook of Studies, 2012-2013: [http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/272-ordine-degli-studi-aa-2012-2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927155052/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/272-ordine-degli-studi-aa-2012-2013|date=27 September 2013}} Accessed 15 July 2013</ref> *St. John Paul II Institute of Culture<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. John Paul II Institute of Culture – Angelicum |url=https://angelicum.it/st-john-paul-ii-institute-of-culture/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |language=en-US}}</ref> *Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose ''Mater Ecclesiae''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/issr-mater-ecclesiae |title=Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose ''Mater Ecclesiae'' |access-date=15 November 2011 |archive-date=22 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422084450/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/issr-mater-ecclesiae |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Istituto San Tommaso<ref name="Istituto San Tommaso">{{cite web|url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/st-thomas-institute|title=Angelicum University|access-date=15 November 2011|archive-date=22 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422084604/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/st-thomas-institute|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St. Thomas Aquinas, Kyiv (Ukraine)<ref>[http://it.dominic.ua/ Accessed 5 October 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107091708/http://it.dominic.ua/ |date=7 November 2007 }}</ref>

===Associated institutions=== *Higher Institute for Communication and Public Opinion, Rome (Italy)<ref>[http://www.iscop.it/English/index_eng.html Higher Institute for Communication and Public Opinion, Rome (Italy)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624234235/http://www.iscop.it/English/index_eng.html |date=24 June 2008 }}</ref> *Institut Marie-Dominique Chenu, Berlin (Germany)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.institut-chenu.eu/index.php?lang=en|title=Institut M.-Dominique Chenu}}</ref>

===Related programs=== *Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest<ref>[http://angelicumstoq.com/home AngelicumSTOQ (Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312191507/http://angelicumstoq.com/home |date=12 March 2008 }}</ref> *Bridge Builder Project <ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110920011308/http://www.scienze-politiche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=47 Accessed 5 October 2012]}}</ref> *Center for Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)<ref>[http://www.stthomas.edu/catholicstudies/rome/undergrad.html Accessed 5 April 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517040441/http://www.stthomas.edu/catholicstudies/rome/undergrad.html |date=17 May 2013 }}</ref> *Religions and Non-conventional Spiritualities Chair (RNCS)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/faculty-of-theology |title=Angelicum University |publisher=Pust.it |date=17 May 2014 |access-date=25 April 2015 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504021620/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/faculties-and-institutes/faculty-of-theology |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Ethical Leadership International Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.google.com/site/fassleadershipprogram/|title=Leadership in Politics & Economics Program}}</ref> *Management and Corporate Social Responsibility<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelicum.org/Home/master_universitario.php?c=153&m=8&l=it|title=Management and Corporate Social Responsibility|access-date=13 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223141133/http://www.angelicum.org/Home/master_universitario.php?c=153&m=8&l=it|archive-date=23 December 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> {{in lang|it}} *Management of the Organizations of the Third Sector<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelicum.org/Home/management_delle.php?c=152&m=8&l=it|title=Management of the Organizations of the Third Sector|access-date=13 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223142149/http://www.angelicum.org/Home/management_delle.php?c=152&m=8&l=it|archive-date=23 December 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> {{in lang|it}} *The John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jp2center.org/|title=Home|first=Lift|last=Interactive}}</ref> a partnership between The Russell Berrie Foundation and the ''Angelicum'', aims to build bridges between diverse religious traditions. The Center features top-level visiting faculty teaching interreligious dialogue courses, and the prestigious John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding.<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.20120402231939">{{cite web |url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/ |title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog |website=angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com |access-date=15 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402231939/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/ |archive-date=2 Apr 2012}}</ref>

===Scholarships=== The Russell Berrie Fellowship in Interreligious Studies<ref name="Interreligious" /> targets members of the laity and clergy for the purpose of studying at the ''Angelicum'' to obtain License or Doctoral Degrees in Theology with a concentration in Inter-religious Studies. The goal of the Fellowship Program is to build bridges between Christian, Jewish, and other religious traditions by providing the next generation of religious leaders with a comprehensive understanding of and dedication to interfaith issues. The award will provide one year of financial support the Russell Berrie Foundation,<ref>[http://www.russellberriefoundation.org/home.php Russell Berrie Foundation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518130340/http://www.russellberriefoundation.org/home.php |date=18 May 2006 }}</ref> which carries on the values and passions of the late Russell Berrie,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/business/russell-berrie-69-founder-of-a-toy-and-gift-company.html|title=Russell Berrie, 69, Founder Of a Toy and Gift Company|date=27 December 2002|work=The New York Times}}</ref> by promoting the continuity of the Jewish tradition, and fostering religious understanding and pluralism. Financial support is intended to cover tuition, a living stipend, examination fees, a book allowance, and travel expenses to and from the recipient's home country once a year.

The William E. Simon Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance for academically qualified students who live in Rome and who would otherwise lack the resources to cover their educational expenses at the ''Angelicum''. Each scholarship award provides no more than 40% of the total annual expense of tuition, room, board, and related fees and expenses. Annually the fund allocates 50% of its scholarships for lay students.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pustphilo.org/pust/borse/index.php |title=Accessed May 27, 2012 |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706000903/http://www.pustphilo.org/pust/borse/index.php |archive-date=6 July 2012 |url-status=usurped |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

International Dominican Foundation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://internationaldominicanfoundation.org/index.php|title=The International Dominican Foundation -|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223013443/http://internationaldominicanfoundation.org/index.php|archive-date=23 February 2012}}</ref> (IDF) is a non-profit organization that provides monetary support to Dominican educational programs at the Jerusalem École Biblique, the ''Angelicum'' in Rome, and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)in Cairo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://internationaldominicanfoundation.org/|title=The International Dominican Foundation -}}</ref> The IDF made grants of approximately $270,000.00 for the academic year 2011–2012, the major part of which went the ''Angelicum'' in accord with the William E. Simon Scholarship, the McCadden-McQuirk Foundation, and the Réginald de Rocquois Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web| title=New Moment for IDF | url=http://www.domlife.org/2012Stories/files/IDF_newsletter_summer2012.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718212735/http://www.domlife.org/2012Stories/files/IDF_newsletter_summer2012.pdf | archive-date=2013-07-18}}</ref>

===United States Federal Loan Program=== The ''Angelicum'' is listed under schools in Rome that can participate in the US Federal Loan Program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/laystudentsinrome2/fundingyoureducation |title= Fundingyoureducation - Lay Students in Rome|website=sites.google.com |access-date=6 February 2013}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref><ref>Go to the fafsa.ed.gov website. Click on "School Code Search". Under the requested State look for "foreign country" and for city put in "Rome" to find the federal school code search. The ''Angelicum'' is listed as "PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA SAN TOMMASO"</ref>

===Academic calendar=== The regular academic year at the ''Angelicum'' runs from early October until the end of May. Some of the university's important annual events are as follows:

'''October''' Solemn Inauguration of the Academic Year and Mass of the Holy Spirit

'''22 October''' Solemnity of the Dedication of the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus

'''15 November''' Feast of Saint Albert the Great.

'''7 March''' Feast of the university's patron Saint Thomas Aquinas

'''21 May''' Solemn Mass for the Ending of the Academic Year and Conferral of academic degrees. Dominican feast of Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier

'''June''' A summer session runs for the month of June.

Generally administration offices remain open until the end of July, are closed for the month of August, and reopen in early September.

==''Angelicum'' campus== [[File:Trajan Forum.jpg|thumb|420px|Trajan's Forum and Market with the ''Angelicum'' campus in distance at center including the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus. The Torre delle Milizie can be seen to the left of campus.]]

The ''Angelicum'' campus is located in the historic center of Rome, Italy, on the Quirinal Hill in the section or ''rione'' of the eternal city known as ''Monti''. It is situated near the beginning of ''via Nazionale'' just above the ruins of Trajan's Market, the ''via dei Fori Imperiali'', and ''Piazza Venezia''.

===Site=== The site of the ''Angelicum'' is recorded in history sometime before the year 1000 bearing the name ''Magnanapoli'' with a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The nature of the site before the ninth century is uncertain. One theory holds that its name ''Magnanapoli'' derives from the expression ''Bannum Nea Polis'' or "fort of the new city" from the adjacent Byzantine military citadel which included the Torre delle Milizie Rome's oldest extant tower.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.romasegreta.it/l.go-magnanapoli.html|title=Largo Magnanapoli|access-date=17 September 2012|archive-date=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826033401/http://www.romasegreta.it/l.go-magnanapoli.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Architectonic features=== In 1569 Dominican Pope Pius V ordered the construction of the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus. This was followed in 1575 by a convent for Dominican nuns. Among the architects who worked on the complex are Vignola; Giacomo della Porta; Nicola and Orazio Torriani; and Vincenzo della Greca. The church's double staircase was added in 1654 by sculptor architect Orazio Torriani.

In 1870 the religious community was expropriated by the Italian government. The Order was able to reacquire the complex in 1927 from the Italian government. After extensive renovation and additions the ''Angelicum'' and a convent of Dominican Friars was installed there. Today the university occupies approximately the entire ground level of the complex. The remaining portion, approximately the second and third levels around the cloister together with subterranean spaces, constitutes a convent for the community of Dominican Friars that serves the university.

[[File:Facade of the main entrance of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) (19May07).jpg|thumb|right|280px|''Angelicum'' main entrance, a Palladian motif portico above which are mounted the escutcheons of Pope Pius XI<ref name="saints.sqpn.com">{{cite web |url=http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd06623.htm |title=New Catholic Dictionary: Pope Pius XI |access-date=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524094001/http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd06623.htm |archive-date=24 May 2013 }} Accessed 8 September 2012</ref> on the left and a Dominican shield bearing one of the Dominican mottos, "laudare, benedicere, praedicare" (to praise, to bless, to preach) on the right]]

The main entrance of the ''Angelicum'' immediately to the right of the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus was built into the existing structure in the early 1930s as part of the renovations undertaken to accommodate the ''Angelicum'' at its new site. A wide flight of stairs leads to a Palladian motif portico above which are mounted a Dominican shield bearing one of the Order's mottos "laudare, benedicere, praedicare" (to praise, bless, and preach) on the right, and the escutcheons of Pope Pius XI<ref name="saints.sqpn.com"/> who was reigning when the ''Pontificium Institutum Internationale Angelicum'' opened its doors in 1932, on the left. The main entrance of the ''Angelicum'' was used in 2010 as a location in the film "Manuale d'amore 3". part of a 4 movie romantic comedy, directed by Giovanni Veronesi and starring Robert De Niro, and Monica Bellucci who were on campus shooting the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/cinecitta-visits-angelicum.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Cinecittà visits the Angelicum|last=Angepr|date=21 October 2010|access-date=21 April 2013|archive-date=20 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320042657/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/cinecitta-visits-angelicum.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Under the entrance portico are two statues c. 1910 by sculptor Cesare Aureli (1843-1923) of St Albert the Great<ref>http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cesare-aureli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 8 September 2012; http://nunspeak.wordpress.com/tg/st-albertus-magnus/ Accessed 9 September 2012</ref> on the left and St. Thomas Aquinas on the right. The base of the statue of Aquinas bears an inscription attributed to Pope Pius XI, "Sanctus Thomas Doctor angelicus hic tamquam domi suae habitat," (Saint Thomas the Angelic Doctor dwells here as in his own house), a paraphrase of the papal encyclical ''Studiorum ducem'' that singles out the ''Angelicum'' as the preeminent Thomistic center of learning: "ante omnia Pontificium Collegium Angelicum, ubi Thomam tamquam domi suae habitare dixeris".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19230629_studiorum-ducem_lt.html|title=Studiorum ducem, Litterae Encyclicae saeculo sexto exeunte a Sanctorum Caelitum honoribus Thomae Aquinati decretis, d. 29 m. Iunii a. 1923, Pius PP. XI - PIUS XI}}</ref>

The Angelicum's statue of Aquinas is Aureli's second version of this work. The first version of 1889<ref>"...nel Maggio 1889, getto' le fondamenta di un nuovo fabbricato, per costruirvi una spaziosa e comoda sala... In questo frattempo nel Vaticano usciva compiuta dallo scapello dell'insigne artista Cesare Aureli la magnifica statua di S. Tommaso d'Aquino..." https://books.google.com/books?id=_No_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84 Accessed 8 March 2013, ''Le nuove sale della Biblioteca Leonina in Vaticano'', by Prof. Antonio Sacco, Assistente nella Biblioteca Vaticana, 21-22, in ''Nel giubileo episcopale di Leone XIII. omaggio della Biblioteca vaticana, XIX Febbraio, Anno M DCCCXCIII''</ref> looms majestically over the ''Sala di Consultazione'' or main reference room of the Vatican Library.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=G7sfGuQOM2EC&dq=%22Vatican&pg=PA85 Accessed 9 September 2012. The ''Angelicum'' statue appears on the cover of ''Parola'', publication of the ''Angelicum'' association of students, ASPUST. https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/solennita-di-san-tommaso.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224092816/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/solennita-di-san-tommaso.html |date=24 December 2013 }} Accessed 9 September 2012. A photograph of Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican Library with the original version of the statue can be found at: https://lavignadelsignore.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-visita-del-papa-alla-biblioteca.html Accessed 9 September 2012</ref> At the instigation of the Pontifical Roman Seminary the Vatican version of the statue was commissioned in the name of all seminaries of the world as a gift to Pope Leo XIII in celebration of his episcopal jubilee in 1893.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Biblioteca apostolica vaticana |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_No_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84 |title=Nel giubileo episcopale di Leone XIII. omaggio della Biblioteca vaticana XIX febbraio anno MDCCCXCIII. |date=1893 |publisher=Tip. poliglotta della S. C. de prop. fide |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HsQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA744 |title=Catholic World |date=1898 |publisher=Paulist Fathers |language=en}}</ref> The statue has been described in the following terms:<blockquote>St. Thomas seated, in his left arm holds the ''Summa theologica'' while extending his right arm in the act of protecting Christian science. Thus, he does not sit on the cathedra of a doctor but on the throne of a sovereign protector; he extends his arm to reassure, not to demonstrate. He wears on his head the doctoral ''birettum'' of the traditional type which reveals the face and expression of a profoundly educated person.... The immortal book that he clutches, the powerful arm that extends to affirm sacred science and to halt the audacity of error, are truly grand, and in the words of Leo XIII, have equaled the genius of all other great teachers.<ref>''Le nuove sale della Biblioteca Leonina in Vaticano'', by Prof. Antonio Sacco, Assistente nella Biblioteca Vaticana, 21-22, in ''Nel giubileo episcopale di Leone XIII. omaggio della Biblioteca vaticana, XIX Febbraio, Anno M DCCCXCIII'', by Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, https://books.google.com/books?id=_No_AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA75 Accessed 8 March 2013: "S. Tommaso seduto, nella sinistra tiene il libro della ''Summa theologica'', mentre stende la destra in atto di proteggere la scienza cristiana. Quindi non siede sulla cattedra di dottore, ma sul trono di sovrano protettore; stende il braccio a rassicurare, non a dimostrare. Ha in testa il dottorale berretto, e conservando il suo tipo tradizionale, rivela nel volto e nell'atteggiamento l'uomo profondamente dotto. L'autore non ha avuto da ispirarsi in altr'opera che esistesse sul soggetto, quindi ha dovuto, può dirsi, creare questo tipo, ed è riuscito originale e felice nella sua creazione.... Quel libro immortale che stringe: quel braccio potente, che sis stende ad affermare la scienza sacra, e ad infrenare l'audacia errore, sono veramente del grande, il quale, secondo il detto di Leone XIII, ha eguagliato il genio di tutti gli altri grandi maestri."</ref></blockquote>

On the occasion of the blessing of this statue in 1914 Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier delivered his "Sed Contra: Allocution aux novices étudiants du Collège Angélique pour la bénédiction d'une statue de S. Thomas d'Aquin dans leur oratoire."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5-3HAAACAAJ|title="Sed Contra": allocution du ... Hyasinthe-Marie Cormier aux novices étudiants du Collège Angélique pour la bénédiction d'une statue de S. Thomas d'Aquin dans leur oratoire|first=Hyacinthe-Marie|last=Cormier|date=1 January 1914|publisher=Collegio Angelico|via=Google Books}}</ref>

===The ''Angelicum'' cloister=== [[File:Angelicum.jpg|thumb|Cloister portico with entrance to the walled garden and in the distance a fountain by Giovanni Battista Soria c. 1630.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/programmatutor13/la-storia-dell-angelicum |title= Google Sites: Sign-in|website=sites.google.com |access-date=27 August 2012}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref>]] A central cloister with garden and fountain forms the heart of campus. The two basins of the ancient fountain are fed by the ''Acqua Felice'' aqueduct, one of the aqueducts of Rome, and the first new aqueduct of early modern Rome, completed in 1585 by Pope Sixtus V<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.romasegreta.it/ss.domenico-e-sisto.html|title=Ss.Domenico e Sisto|access-date=27 August 2012|archive-date=30 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730124728/http://www.romasegreta.it/ss.domenico-e-sisto.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> whose birth name was Felice Peretti. It also feeds the fountain by Giovanni Battista Soria (c. 1630) at the entrance to the ''Angelicum's'' walled garden, and the fountain under the stair below the university's ''portineria'' or porter's lodge before coursing across the Quirinal Hill to its terminus at the Moses fountain or Fontana dell'Acqua Felice on the ''Via del Quirinale''.<ref>N. Cardano, "La mostra dell'Acqua Felice", in ''Il Trionfo dell'acqua'' (Rome, 1986:250-54)</ref>

Arched porticos designed by Vignola but completed after his death flank the cloister. Ten arches on the long sides and seven on the short are sustained by pilasters in the Tuscan style rising from high plinths. A simple frieze with smooth triglyphs and metopes separates lower from upper levels. [[File:Cloister of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.JPG|thumb|Cloister of the ''Angelicum'']] Eleven classrooms encircle the cloister, the last of which, the ''Aula della Sapienza'' (Hall of Wisdom) is the site of the university's doctoral defenses. Also located off the cloister are the administration offices and the ''Sala delle Colonne'', a reception room with antique marble columns and arched ceilings bearing traces of late Renaissance style frescos, which initially housed a library.

On the second level encircling the cloister are the living quarters of Dominican professors and the ''Sala del Senato'' (Academic Senate Room). The latter was the Chapter room of the convent and is appointed with a 14th-century triptych of Saint Andrew by Lippo Vanni,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lippo-vanni_(Enciclopedia-dell'-Arte-Medievale)/|title=LIPPO VANNI in "Enciclopedia dell' Arte Medievale"}}</ref> a 13th-century crucifix, and a full-body relic of an unidentified saint encased in Imperial Roman armor.<ref>''Pro Unione'', 16 October 2010: "In what had been the chapter room, and serves now as the Sala de Senato, the full-body relic of an unnamed saint rests in the armor of an imperial roman soldier under the altar, unbeknownst to even some of the faculty" http://prounione.wordpress.com/tag/angelicum/page/2/ Accessed 20 August 2012</ref>

===The ''Angelicum'' auditoria=== To the east of the ''Sala delle Colonne'' is the ''Aula Magna Giovanni Paolo II'', a raked semicircular auditorium with seating for 1100 people that was constructed during 1930s renovations by Roman engineer Vincenzo Passarelli (1904–1985).<ref>Enciclopedia Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-passarelli</ref> The ''Aula Magna'' was recently renamed after one of the ''Angelicum's'' most illustrious alumni, Pope John Paul II. The adjacent ''Aula Minor San Raimondo'' seats 350 people. Beyond these auditoria are the university's cafe, the ''Angelicum'' Bookshop, and the university's library.

===The ''Angelicum'' administration building=== The ''Palazzo dei Decanati'' (Deans' Building) is located at the West edge of campus just inside the main gates. The West boundary of the ''Angelicum'' is formed by the ''Salita del Grillo''.

===The ''Angelicum'' library=== The main part of the ''Angelicum'' library consists of that part of the textual patrimony of the ''Angelicum'' not expropriated by the Italian government with the Biblioteca Casanatense in 1870. At the convent of Saints Sixtus and Dominic the library originally housed 40,000 volumes in the ''Sala delle Colonne''. As the library grew space was found under the Aula Magna for a library whose large windows face out to the palm trees of the ''Angelicum'' walled garden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/library/general-information/storia|title=Angelicum University|access-date=21 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927153929/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/library/general-information/storia|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The collection that remains at the college today consists of approximately 400 000 volumes, about 6 000 manuscripts, 2 200 ''incunabula'' including 64 Greek codices, and 230 Hebrew texts including 5 Samaritan codices is open to the scholarly community.

Among the library's treasures is included the original copy of the doctoral thesis ''Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce'' (The Doctrine of Faith in St. John of the Cross) written by the future Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła, under the direction of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange and defended on 19 June 1948<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_prepontificato_en.html#1948 Accessed 6 October 2012.]</ref>

===The ''Angelicum'' garden=== On the south side of campus the walled garden is bordered by private properties. At the garden entrance stands a fountain by Giovanni Battista Soria built circa 1630.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The garden is planted with trees of many kinds: orange, lemon, pistachio, olive, fig, palm and laurel, as well as with grape vines, and is an oasis of calm and silence, a figure of paradise in the midst of the bustling eternal city. In 1946 in this garden the young student Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, would stroll and visit daily what he called the "miraculous tree", an ancient olive from which springs incredibly the branches of a palm, a fig, and a laurel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog|access-date=22 August 2012|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402232825/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===The University Church, Chapel, and Choir=== Along the north side of campus are found the university's Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, and the Choir. The church has been the subject of numerous works of art. In the 18th century Antonio Canaletto made a pen and ink study with grey wash and black chalk, today in the collection of the British Museum, described as depicting "the Church of SS Domenico e Sisto, Rome; with a sweeping double staircase to the entrance, in the foreground a man bowing to two approaching ladies".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=713994&partId=1|title=drawing}}</ref> Italian born American painter John Singer Sargent during his extensive travels in Italy made an oil painting of the exterior staircase and balustrade of the campus's Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus in 1906.<ref>''Twentieth C. Paintings in Ashmolean Museum'' by Katharine Eustace, 17-19. https://www.ashmoleanprints.com/image/322435/sargent-john-singer-a-balustrade {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923001252/https://www.ashmoleanprints.com/image/322435/sargent-john-singer-a-balustrade |date=23 September 2020 }}</ref> Sargent described the ensemble as "a magnificent curved staircase and balustrade, leading to a grand façade that would reduce a millionaire to a worm".<ref>[http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/paintings/WA1929.7.php Accessed 24 February 2013]</ref> The painting now hangs at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Sargent used the architectural features from this painting later in a portrait of Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909.<ref>[http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/HVDpresidents/eliot.php Accessed 24 February 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614051752/http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/HVDpresidents/eliot.php |date=14 June 2012}}</ref> Sargent made several preliminary pencil sketches of the balustrade and staircase, which are in the collection of the Harvard University art collection of the Fogg Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/310499|title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Sketch of a Balustrade, San Domenico e Sisto, Rome|last=Harvard}}</ref> The Church as also been depicted by Ettore Roesler Franz and Eero Saarinen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marks4antiques.com/apa/Eero-Saarinen-Finnish-1910-1961--S-S--32294#sthash.E60JQE3W.dpbs|title=Appraise and identify makers marks for Eero Saarinen (Finnish, 1910-1961) S.S.}}</ref> The Church and stair also feature in the 1950 film ''Prima comunione'' by director Alessandro Blasetti,<ref>Alessandro Blasetti Accessed 7 April 2013</ref> which is on the list of the 100 Italian films to save.<ref>http://www.architettiroma.it/archivarch/scheda_film.asp?id_film=40 {{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Accessed 7 April 2013</ref><ref>:it:100 film italiani da salvare Accessed 4 April 2013</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movieplayer.it/film/articoli/cento-film-e-un-italia-da-non-dimenticare_4261/|title=Cento film e un'Italia da non dimenticare}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_febbraio_28/elenco_cento_film_d83cacd8-e5ce-11dc-ab61-0003ba99c667.shtml|title=Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.cinegiornalisti.com/magazineonlinevisualizza_new.asp?id=900 | title=100 film: Mereghetti, Brunetta, Peter von Bagh e lo storico De Luna | access-date=6 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203548/http://www.cinegiornalisti.com/magazineonlinevisualizza_new.asp?id=900 | archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref>

===Surrounding area=== The northern flank of campus borders ''via Panisperna'' across from the perimeter wall of the Roman Villa Aldobrandini, a 17th-century princely villa whose gardens were truncated by the construction of Via Nazionale in the 19th century, and which today houses the headquarters of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). Behind the campus intersecting with Via Nazionale is the "Via Mazzarino", named after Michele Mazzarino professor of theology at the college after 1628 who<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/michele-al-secolo-alessandro-mazzarino_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |title= Treccani - la cultura italiana | Treccani, il portale del sapere|website=www.treccani.it |access-date=15 February 2013}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref> was appointed Master of the Sacred Palace under Pope Urban VIII in 1642, and Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence in 1645 by Pope Innocent X. Mazzarino's brother Giulio Mazzarino, known as "Jules Mazarin" was chief minister of France under Louis XIV.<ref name="aixenprovencetourism.com">[http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/uk/aix-histoire-hotels.htm Hotels, mansions, Aix en Provence history - Tourism France] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607191958/http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/uk/aix-histoire-hotels.htm |date=7 June 2007}}</ref> The East edge of campus is bound by ''Salita del Grillo'' beyond which is the Markets and Forum of Trajan.

==General information== ===''Angelicum'' traditions and annual events=== *Inauguration of the Academic Year takes place in October with a solemn "Mass of the Holy Spirit" and the conferral of academic degrees (see "''Angelicum'' regalia" below). *Inaugural Lecture. In early November a "prolusione" or formal address is given by an invited speaker to mark the inauguration of the academic year: **2009 Wojciech Giertych, Theologian of the Pontifical Household, "Why There Are So Few Thomist Saints?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog|access-date=9 April 2013|archive-date=23 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023045500/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> **2008 Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, "La natura dell'attività' del Legislatore nella Chiesa"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/inaugurazione-dell-accademico-2008-2009.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Inaugurazione dell'anno accademico 2008-2009|last=Angepr|date=5 November 2008|access-date=16 April 2013|archive-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211080450/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/inaugurazione-dell-accademico-2008-2009.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> **1953 Alcide De Gasperi, Founder Christian Democratic Party, Italian Prime Minister 1945–1953, European Union founding member.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSjOho4eZhg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/jSjOho4eZhg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Colpi d'obiettivo sul mondo|last=CinecittaLuce|date=16 June 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> "The International Workers Movement and a United Europe".<ref>"Movimento operaio e unità dell'Europa" https://books.google.com/books?id=XrF8Tr2Rq98C&dq=angelicum+%22de+gaspari&pg=PT208 Accessed 21 September 2012</ref> **1948 Giulio Andreotti, member of provisional parliament tasked with writing the new Italian constitution, and future Prime Minister of Italy (1972–73; 1976–79; 1989–92), "The Intellectual Mission of Italy and of a United Europe".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1NUcE1Owk&noredirect=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/vc1NUcE1Owk |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Università "pro Deo": inaugurazione dei corsi.|last=CinecittaLuce|date=15 June 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> **1928 Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, theologian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.es.catholic.net/santoral/articulo.php?id=38310|title=Buenaventura García Paredes, Beato}}</ref> [[File:Inghirami Raphael.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami'' (ca. 1509) by Raphael (1483-1520).]] *Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'' patron: Traditionally on 7 March, the pre Vatican II feast day and death anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas a high Solemn Mass is offered, followed by an encomium honoring the "angelic doctor." This is one of the ''Angelicum's'' oldest traditions dating back to 6 February 1344 when Pope Clement VI granted to those visiting a church of the Dominican Order on 7 March the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas the remission of one year and forty days of purgatory.<ref>M. H. Laurent, "Autour de la fete de Saint Thomas", in ''Revue thomiste'' XI, 1935, 257-263.</ref> After the offertory of the Mass the motet ''O Doctor optime'' by Vincenzo De Grandis (1577–1646)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/de-grandis-vincenzo-detto-il-romano_(Dizionario_Biografico)/|title=DE GRANDIS, Vincenzo, detto Il Romano in "Dizionario Biografico"}}</ref> was sung in four voices. After Mass a Dominican student or invited speaker recites an encomium in honor of St. Thomas.<ref>Adami, ''Osservazioni per ben regolare il coro della Cappella Pontificia'', 156, in ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri'' by Gaetano Moroni, 135. https://books.google.com/books?id=GChTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135 Accessed 15 April 2013</ref> **2013, Angelo Vincenzo Zani presider, Congregation for Catholic Education Secretary, Titular Archbishop of Volturnum, ''Angelicum'' Theology Faculty alumnus. **2012, Giuseppe Sciacca presider, Secretary-General of the Governatorate of Vatican City, alumnus of the ''Angelicum'' Canon Law Faculty. **1932, Martin Stanislas Gillet, Master of the Order of Preachers (1929–1946)<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k413307f/texteBrut Accessed 14 Jan. 2015, ''La Croix'', 1880-1968.]</ref> **1914, Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier Master of the Order of Preachers. **1903, Domenico Toncelli. ''Il genio della Scienza. Panegirico di S. Tommaso d'Aquino''.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=pdwWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA288 Accessed 2 January 2015, ''Il rosario'' vol 20, 1903, p. 288</ref> **1893, Cardinal Sebastiano Galeati<ref>:it:Sebastiano Galeati Accessed 16 April 2013</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}} Archbishop of Ravenna gave the encomium.<ref>Il Rosario, Volume 10, 192 https://books.google.com/books?id=c88WAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA191 Accessed 16 April 2013</ref> **1882, Francesco Satolli<ref>{{cite book|title=Eglise à Lyon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LGXt_pgfZzwC&pg=PA447|year=1881|publisher=Archevêché de Lyon|pages=447–}}</ref> **1880, Girolamo Pio Saccheri.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5pCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA523 Accessed 3 January 2015; ''La Scienza e la fede'', Volume 117 p. 209, p. 523</ref> **1874, Jesuit priest and scholar Giovanni Maria Cornoldi gave the encomium.<ref>''La filosofia scolastica di San Tommaso e di Dante: ad uso dei licei'', by, 1889, 107, https://books.google.com/books?id=WHoNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107 Accessed 13 May 2013</ref> **1661, Angelo Paciucchelli<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bM6wwPZorcAC&pg=PA149 Accessed 2 Jan. 2005; ''Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum ab anno ...'' Pio Tomasso Masetti, p. 149]</ref> **1650, Antonio Francesco Fracassi<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=RtE2uzZ5uzoC&dq=oratio&pg=PA691 Accessed 1 January 2014; ''Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum: recensiti notisque historicis et criticis ...'' By Jacques Quetif, p. 691</ref> **1635 c., Raimondo Capizucchi<ref>http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/raimondo-capizucchi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 15 January 2015; https://books.google.com/books?id=nIvFEOy9QNsC&dq=minerve+prononcee+mars+aquin&pg=PA49 Accessed 15 January 2015; ''Bibliothèque sacrée, ou dictionnaire universel historique ...'', Volume 6, p. 49.</ref> **1634, Joseph Maria Avila, "Laudatio Divi Thomae Aquinatis"<ref>Bibliografia Romana notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori romani..., 22, https://books.google.com/books?id=kUADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 Accessed 14 December 2014</ref> **1633, Latino Pagano Orsini<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=qfNJAAAAcAAJ&dq=1633+latino&pg=PA655 Accessed 1 January 2015; ''Biblioteca Volante'' Giorgio Cinelli Calvoli, Dionigi Andrea Sancassani, vol. 3, p. 413; https://books.google.com/books?id=jyC5Qgf85ysC&dq=oratio&pg=PA211</ref> **1622, Reginaldo Lucarini,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.protrevi.com/protrevi/Lucarin1.asp|title=TREVI - Famiglia Lucarini}}</ref> Master of the Sacred Palace (1643),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/romancuria/d60.htm|title=Prefecture of the Papal Household}}</ref> gave the encomium<ref>"Laudatio s. Thomae Aquinatis," Bibliotheca historica Medii Aevi: Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des ..., p. 1601, by August Potthast * {{Cite book | last1=Potthast | first1=August | title=Bibliotheca historica Medii Aevi: Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des ... - August Potthast - Google Boeken | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yr8VdwQblhIC&pg=PA1601 | access-date=2025-04-02 | publisher=W. Weber | isbn=978-0-7905-8046-3 }}</ref> **1615, Ignazio Cianti<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=H4XPAAAAMAAJ&dq=orazione+aquinatis&pg=PA146 2 January 2015; Biblioteca volante, Volume 2, Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli, Dionisio Andrea Sancassani, Carlo Cartari, Sebastiano Biancandi, 146</ref> **1571, Cornelio Firmano, Bishop of Osimo (1574-1588)<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=sRA5AAAAcAAJ&dq=%227+martii%22+%22sopra&pg=PA129 Accessed 1Jan 2015; Storia della marina Pontificia dal secolo ottavo al decimonono, Volume 6 By Alberto Guglielmotti, p. 129</ref> **1562, Juan Gallo, representative of Philip II at the Council of Trent<ref>''El sacrosanto y ecuménico Concilio de Trento'', Ignacio López de Ayala, 429. https://books.google.com/books?id=VmasMhMqjlQC&dq=%22Fr.+Juan+Gallo%22&pg=PA429 Accessed 25 June 2014</ref> gave the encomium.<ref>''Colección de documentos inéditos papa la historia de España'', 1846, Madrid, 33. https://archive.org/stream/coleccindedocu09madruoft/coleccindedocu09madruoft_djvu.txt Accessed 25 June 2014</ref> **1555, Pope Paul IV gave the encomium in praise of St. Thomas to the community at the Minerva.<ref>Giuseppe de Novaes, ''Vita di Paolo IV'', tom VII, 137, in ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri'' by Gaetano Moroni, 135: "ordino' la cappella Cardinalizia nella chiesa di s. Maria sopra Minerva nel giorno dedicato a celebrare la memoria di s. Tommaso d'Aquino, le cui lodi egli stesso egregiamente espose..." https://books.google.com/books?id=GChTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135 Accessed 15 April 2013</ref> **1510, Antonio Pucci.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/7428931|title=I panegirici in onore di s. Tommaso d'Aquino alla Minerva nel XV secolo, "Memorie Domenicane" N.S. 30 (1999), pp. 19-146 [recensito su Medioevo latino XXII (2001), n. 4538]|first=Luciano|last=Cinelli |date=22 June 2014 }}</ref> **1496, Martin de Viana.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=c_8LAAAAYAAJ&dq=viana&pg=PA1602 2 January 2014; ''Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mitelalters ...'', Volume 2, August Potthas, p. 1602</ref> **1495, Tommaso Inghirami, poet and orator, delivered his "Panegyricus in memoriam divi Thomae Aquinatis"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/inghirami-tommaso-detto-fedra_(Dizionario_Biografico)/|title=INGHIRAMI, Tommaso, detto Fedra in "Dizionario Biografico"}}</ref> **1491, Bernardo Basin (c. 1445–1510), author of the ''Tractatus exquisitissimus de magicis artibus ac magorum malificiis'' (1483) gave the encomium at the Minerva.<ref>''Rerum italicarum scriptores : raccolta degli storici italiani dal cinquecento al millecinquecento'', 548, 15 November 1949. https://archive.org/stream/p1brerumitalicaru32card/p1brerumitalicaru32card_djvu.txt Accessed 25 June 2014; http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=2013 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104015419/http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=2013 |date=4 January 2015 }} Accessed 25 June 2014</ref> **1487, Martin de Nimira, Croatian Latinist<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=S6AYAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22de+Nimira%22+capelle&pg=PA243 Accessed 1 January 2015; ''Capelle pontificie sacrorum rituum magistri diarium: sive Rerum urbanarum ...'', Johann Burchard, p. 243</ref> **1485, Francesco Matarazzo, Renaissance chronicler, gave the encomium.<ref>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-maturanzio_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 15 May 2013; Reprinted in G. Zappacosta, ''Il Gymnasium perugino e altri studi sull'umanesimo umbro (con testi inediti e rari)'', ed. V. Licitra, Rome 1984, pp. 112-125; cf. 16-36, 97-214.]</ref> **1483 c., Aurelio Lippo Brandolini **1469, Giovanni Antonio Campani **1457, Lorenzo Valla famed humanist. The Dominicans of the Minerva ''studium generale'' pressed Valla to voice criticism of scholastic thomism.<ref name="books.google.com"/> **1450, Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/7428931|title=I panegirici in onore di s. Tommaso d'Aquino alla Minerva nel XV secolo, "Memorie Domenicane" N.S. 30 (1999), pp. 19-146 [recensito su Medioevo latino XXII (2001), n. 4538]|first=Luciano|last=Cinelli |date=22 June 2014 }}</ref> *Concert Talent Show is offered annually by students and professors consisting of a multicultural exhibition of music, song and dance from around the world. *The Albertus Magnus ''lectio magistralis'' in honor of St. Albert the Great, teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas and Doctor of the Church is given on or near 15 November, feast day of St. Albert.

Other recent lectures and events of note related to the university's mission include: *2018, 7 March, Rocco Buttiglione gave a ''lectio'' entitled "''De singularibus non est scientia'': St. Thomas and a recent controversy in moral theology".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://angelicum.it/news/2018/03/09/buttiglione-thus-amoris-laetitia-founded-st-thomas/ |title= Buttiglione: "Thus Amoris laetitia is founded on St. Thomas"|website=angelicum.it |date= 9 March 2018|access-date=9 September 2018}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref> *2014, 7 May, Symposium in honor of Dominican Friar Giuseppe Girotti, martyr at Dachau concentration camp in 1945, beatified at Alba, Piedmont on 26 April 2014.<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.20120402231939"/> *2013, 16 April, Romano Prodi, former President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Italy gave a ''lectio magistralis'' at the ''Angelicum'' entitled "I grandi cambiamenti della politica e dell'economia mondiale: c'è un posto per l'Europa?" ("The Great Changes in Politics and the World Economy: Is there Room for Europe?). Prodi was sponsored by the ''Angelicum'' and the Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi<ref>:it:Università degli Studi "Guglielmo Marconi" Accessed 17, 2013</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}} as promotion for the degree offered in Political Science, "Scienze Politiche e del Buon Governo."<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.20120402231939"/> A few days after his lecture Prodi was selected by PD parliamentarians to be their candidate for President of Italy during the 2013 presidential election. *2008, 12 December, Cherie Blair gave a lecture "Religion as a Force in protecting Women's Human Rights"<ref name="Pro-life">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/ni/2008/12/prolife_campaigners.html |url-status=dead |title=Pro-life campaigners urge Catholic university to ban Cherie Blair |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141201214529/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/ni/2008/12/prolife_campaigners.html |archive-date=1 December 2014 |access-date=13 December 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cherieblair.org/speeches/2008/12/speech-on-human-rights-women-a.html |url-status=dead |title=Speech on Human Rights, Women and the Church |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207162203/http://cherieblair.org/speeches/2008/12/speech-on-human-rights-women-a.html |archive-date=7 December 2014 |access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hancaquam.blogspot.com/2008/12/fr-philips-comments-on-cherie-blairs.html |url-status=live |title=Fr. Philip's comments on Cherie Blair's Angelicum lecture |date=18 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119134758/https://hancaquam.blogspot.com/2008/12/fr-philips-comments-on-cherie-blairs.html |archive-date=19 November 2011 |access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> The lecture was alternatively entitled "The Church and Women's Rights: time for a fresh perspective?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://win.scienze-politiche.org/ENG/htnl/rass.html|title=WOMEN AND HUMAN RIGHTS|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115120/http://win.scienze-politiche.org/ENG/htnl/rass.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

The ''Angelicum'' Alumni Achievement Award is conferred upon alumni who have distinguished themselves by serving the Church's mission in exceptional ways. The award is bestowed on 7 March, the old feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron of the university. Past recipients include Cardinal John Foley (2009), Archbishop Peter Smith (2011), and Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien (2012).

The Pope John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding is delivered towards the end of each academic year and features a world religious leader or renowned expert who embodies the ideals of inter-religious understanding. The lecture is a major event at the Angelicum and attracts the Roman academic community as well as the international diplomatic community. To date the Annual Lecture has hosted an array of prominent and Internationally known academics and religious leaders as key note speakers."<ref name="Interreligious">{{cite web |url=http://www.russellberriefoundation.org/Initiative_jr_Angelicum.php |publisher=Russellberriefoundation.org |url-status=dead |title=The John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218100104/http://www.russellberriefoundation.org/Initiative_jr_Angelicum.php |archive-date=18 February 2015 |access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> **2012 Cardinal Kurt Koch, President, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, "Building on Nostra Aetate: 50 Years of Christian- Jewish Dialogue" **2011 Professor David F. Ford, Anglican theologian, Cambridge University Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme Director, "Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-faith Practice for the Twenty-first Century" **2010 Mona Siddiqui, Islamic Scholar and Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, "Islamic Perspectives on Judaism and Christianity" **2009 Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, "A Rabbi's Reflection on the Teachings of John Paul II" **2008 Donald Wuerl, S.T.D. Archbishop of Washington, DC, "Unifying Religious Threads that Provide a Common Ground for Peace" *A Eucharistic Procession led by a notable Church dignitary takes place at the end of each academic year. Typically the procession departs at 1:00 p.m. from the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, continues around the ''Angelicum's'' central courtyard, through the main corridors and ends in the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus for Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. **In 2013 Miroslav Konštanc Adam, ''Angelicum'' Rector, led the procession on 15 May.<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.20120402231939"/> **In 2012 James D. Conley, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Denver, USA, led the procession on 3 May. **In 2011 Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops, led the procession on 27 May. **In 2010 it was led by Piero Marini. **In 2009 Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect for the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, led the procession. *Eucharistic Exposition and Adoration is offered by no Pontifical University in Rome other than the ''Angelicum''. On class days (Monday-Friday) from 8:00am–6:20pm Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel near the entrance of the Choir at the ''Angelicum''. Students can sign up to be "Eucharistic Guardians" for an hour giving them the opportunity to pray for a series of intentions administration, faculty, staff and students post in the intention sheet. This is organized by the university chaplaincy and the students themselves following the Dominican tradition of the Eucharist being at the center of the life of study.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/eucharistic-adoration-at-angelicum.html |title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Eucharistic adoration at the Angelicum |publisher=Angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com |access-date=25 April 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133532/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/eucharistic-adoration-at-angelicum.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Formal Closure of the Academic Year is celebrated with a Solemn Mass at the end of May.

===School motto and hymn=== In 1908, when the college was transformed it into the ''Collegium Pontificium Internationale Angelicum'', Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier bestowed upon it his personal motto as Master General of the Order of Preachers, ''caritas veritatis''. This Latin phrase literally translated as ''the charity of truth'' appears in ''''The City of God''''<ref>Augustine of Hippo, ''The City of God'', 19</ref> by St. Augustine of Hippo, and is quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas in comparing the active and the contemplative life: "Unde Augustinus dicit XIX ''De civ. Dei'', Otium sanctum quaerit caritas veritatis; negotium justum, scilicet vitae activae, ''suscipit necessitas caritatis'',"<ref>''Summa theologiae'' IIa, IIae, 182, 1 ad 3</ref> which Aldous Huxley translates in ''The Perennial Philosophy'' as: "The love of Truth seeks holy leisure; the necessity of love undertakes righteous action."<ref>''The Perennial Philosophy'', Aldous Huxley, 300, https://books.google.com/books?id=l1fs25HbCY0C&pg=PA300 Accessed 19 March 2013</ref> Augustine's phrase also appears in the writings of William of St-Thierry<ref>William of St-Thierry, ''Expositio super Cantico canticorum'', PL 180, 507 A-B: "Maneat semper intus caritas veritatis cum exire cogitur in aliena necessitas caritatis. ''Jan Van Ruusbroec: The Sources, Content, and Sequels of His Mysticism'' ed. P. Mommaers, N. De Paepe, 84 https://books.google.com/books?id=c_VgaSN9xTsC&pg=PA84 Accessed 19 March 2013</ref>

The ''Angelicum'' does not currently have a school song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/angelicum-hymn.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Angelicum Hymn (?)|last=Angepr|date=26 January 2012|access-date=19 March 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190529/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/angelicum-hymn.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===''Angelicum'' regalia=== Academic dress for ''Angelicum'' graduates consists of a black toga or academic gown with trim to follow the color of the faculty, and an academic ring. In addition, for the Doctorate degree a four corned biretta is to be worn, and for the Licentiate degree a three corned biretta is to be worn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/233-vesti-accademiche-laureati-dellangelicum|title=Angelicum University|access-date=3 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728040858/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/233-vesti-accademiche-laureati-dellangelicum|archive-date=28 July 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Traditionally the ceremony at which the ''biretum'' is imposed is called the "''birretatio''".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mbs-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT147|title=Glossarium novum ad scriptores Medii Aevi, cum Latinos tum Gallicos: seu supplementum ad auctiorem Glossarii Cangiani editionem : subditae sunt, ordine alphabetico, voces Gallicae usu aut significatu obsoletae, quae in glossario et supplemento explicantur; accedunt varii indices... His demum adjuncta est Cangii dissertatio De inferioris aevi aut imperii numismatibus; quam excipiunt emendationes typographicae ad postremam glossarii editionem|date=1 January 1766|publisher=apud Le Breton-Saillant-Desaint|via=Google Books}}</ref>

For those holding doctoral degrees from a pontifical university or faculty "the principal mark of a Doctor's dignity is the four horned biretta."<ref>John Abel Nainfa, Costume of Prelates of The Catholic Church: According To Roman Etiquette, 164.</ref> The 1917 Code of Canon Law canon 1378 and 1922 commentary prescribe the four corned ''biretum doctorale'' and doctoral ring or ''annulum doctorale'' for doctorates in philosophy, theology, canon law, specifying that the ''biretum'' should decorated according to the color of the faculty ("diverso colore ornatum pro Facultate").<ref>See ''Commentarium Codicis Iuris Canonici'', 1922, Liber III, Pars IV, Tit. XXII, which clarifies that the ''biretum'' should be decorated according to the color of the faculty: Comment 262. Doctoratus ac Scentiae effectus canonici sic recensentur can. 1378: "doctoribus seu gradum academicum in una ex quatuor supradictis facultatibus supremum obtinentibus, rite creatis, seu promotis regulariter post examen, iuxta « statuta a Sede Apostolica probata » (can. 1376, § 2) saltem quoad usum validum « facultatis ab eadem Aplca. Sede concessae » (can. 1377, § 1), deferendi, extra sacras functiones, (quarum nomine ad hunc eflectum non venit ex usu sacra praedicatio), nisi aliunde amplietur eis hoc ius quoad a) annulum etiam cum gemma « ipsis a iure huius canonis concessum » (can. 136, § 2), b) et biretum doctorale, (idest: cum quatuor apicibus) utpote insigne huius gradus ac diverso colore ornatum pro Facultate.</ref> The 'traditional' ''Angelicum'' biretta is white to correspond to the white Dominican habit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cantate-domino.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-info-on-academic-birettas-and-such.html|title=The New Beginning: Some info on academic birettas and such|last=Papabear|date=26 April 2008}}</ref> However, the Academic Senate of the ''Angelicum'' in its May 2011 meeting indicated that for the Licentiate and Doctorate a black biretta may be used with colored piping and pom to follow the color of the faculty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/233-vesti-accademiche-laureati-dellangelicum |title=Angelicum University |publisher=Pust.it |date=17 May 2014 |access-date=25 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728040858/http://www.pust.it/index.php/en/universita/233-vesti-accademiche-laureati-dellangelicum |archive-date=28 July 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The biretta is lay in origin and was adopted by the Church in the 14th century: "Many synods ordered the use of this cap [the ''pileus'' or skull cap] as a substitute for the hood, and in one instance the synod of Bergamo, 1311, ordered the clergy to wear the ''bireta'' on their heads after the manner of laymen'." Herbert Norris, ''Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development'', 1950, 161).

===''Angelicum'' athletics=== The Olympic motto ''Citius, Altius, Fortius'' (Faster, Higher, Stronger) was coined by Henri Didon for a Paris youth gathering in 1891, and later proposed as the official Olympic motto by his friend Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 and made official in 1924. Didon completed his theological studies at the College of Saint Thomas in 1862.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.johannes-hospiz.de/cms/Begleitung/Denkanstoesse/Meditation/index-b-1-65-244.html|title=Münster - Startseite - Johannes Hospiz Münster|last=Kovalenz}}</ref><ref name=motto>{{cite web|title=Opening Ceremony|url=http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_268.pdf|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=23 August 2012|page=3|year=2002}}; "Sport athlétique", 14 mars 1891: "[...] dans une éloquente allocution il a souhaité que ce drapeau les conduise 'souvent à la victoire, à la lutte toujours'. Il a dit qu'il leur donnait pour devise ces trois mots qui sont le fondement et la raison d'être des sports athlétiques: citius, altius, fortius, 'plus vite, plus haut, plus fort'.", cited in Hoffmane, Simone ''La carrière du père Didon, Dominicain. 1840 - 1900'', Doctoral thesis, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, 1985, p. 926; cf. Michaela Lochmann, ''Les fondements pédagogiques de la devise olympique „citius, altius, fortius“''</ref>

The Clericus Cup is a soccer tournament that takes place annually between the various pontifical universities of Rome. The teams are composed of seminarians, priests, and lay students studying in each of the pontifical universities. The league was started by Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone who is an unapologetic football fan. The ''Angelicum'' first participated in 2011, and came in second place in 2012. During the history of the Clericus Cup, players have come from 65 countries, with the majority coming from Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. The annual tournament is organized by the Centro Sportivo Italiano. Officially, the goal of the league is to "reinvigorate the tradition of sport in the Christian community." In other words, to provide a venue for friendly athletic competition among the thousands of seminarians and lay students, representing nearly a hundred countries, who study in Rome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.op-stjoseph.org/blog/clericus_cup/|title=www.op-stjoseph.org}}</ref>

In November 2011 Minerva the Owl was voted in as the ''Angelicum'' mascot.<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com"/>

===Student housing=== The ''Angelicum'' does not provide housing primarily intended for lay students. However, assistance finding local student housing is offered by the ''Angelicum Office'' of Student Affairs (ASPUST).<ref>[http://www.pustphilo.org/pust/stud/index.php ''Angelicum Office'' of Student Affairs] {{dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> The office is located in the Palazzo dei Decanati or Deans' Building at the West end of campus, just inside the gates to the right.

The '''Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas''' is an international college for lay students within walking distance of the ''Angelicum''.

The '''Convitto San Tommaso''' was established by the Dominican Order in 1963 as a place of residence in Rome for secular priests who come to the Rome in order to pursue higher studies at one or other of the Roman Universities. There are approximately 55 student priests. They come from five continents of the world. Three Dominicans live in the house to serve the practical and spiritual needs of the house: the Rector, the Spiritual Director, and the Bursar. The life of the house focuses on daily celebration of the Eucharist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/a/convittosantommaso.org/www/ |title=Convitto San Tommaso |access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref>

===Student activities=== The following is a sample of student activities: *The ''Associazione Studentesca Pontificia Università San Tommaso'' (ASPUST), or Student Association of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas, is housed in the ''Angelicum Office'' of Student Affairs.<ref>[http://pustphilo.com/pust/aspust/index.php Accessed 14 April 2013] {{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

ASPUST holds elections for its offers in mid November each year. ASPUST offers services to students and prospective students of the ''Angelicum'' such as information about health services and insurance, information about apartment hunting, other services relating to public transportation, computers, cafeterias, and a blog that reports on student activities.

*At various times during the academic year one of the Faculties or the Student Association sponsors a day-long pilgrimage for students and faculty to locales such as Assisi, Norcia, Cascia, Subiaco, Orvieto, Siena, or Roccasecca, birthplace of St. Thomas Aquinas. *Chaplaincy of the ''Angelicum'' sponsors a "Karol Wojtyla Discussion Group" that meets weekly. *The ''Angelicum'' Choir meets for practice each week in the chapel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/join-angelicum-choir.html |title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Join the Angelicum Choir |publisher=Angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com |access-date=25 April 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194818/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/join-angelicum-choir.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Bookstore=== The ''Angelicum'' Bookshop is run by ''Libreria Leoniana'' of Rome. Located on near the University Library, it specializes in ecclesiastical literature, Italian and foreign language literature, and provides stationery, photo-reproduction, computer, and bindery services. Hours during the academic year are 9:00am to 1:00pm and 3:00pm to 6:00pm. It is closed Saturdays and the month of August.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/libreria-leonina-alla-pust.html|title=Angelicum Newsletter Blog: Libreria Leonina alla PUST|last=Angepr|date=14 October 2008|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104946/http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/libreria-leonina-alla-pust.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Publications and media== *''Angelicum'' is the official peer-reviewed academic journal of the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bitculturali.it/2008/04/novita/2088/ |title=Angelicum, la rivista della Pontificia Università San Tommaso d'Aquino |date=29 April 2008 |access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> The journal covers the major disciplines of the university, including theology, philosophy, canon law, and social science, as well as other sacred disciplines. It was established in 1924 as ''Unio Thomistica'' and obtained its current title in 1925.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC&q=%22Unio+Thomistica%22&pg=PA48 |title=In This Light Which Gives Light |access-date=3 April 2015|isbn=9781883734183 |last1=Renz |first1=Christopher J. |date=September 2009 |publisher=Dominican School }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/51016935 |title=Library of Congress |publisher=Pontificia Universitas a Sancto Thoma |oclc=05663388 |access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> Articles are published in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German. *''Oikonomia'' is the journal founded in 1999 at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) of the ''Angelicum''. It is a collaborative project of the lecturers and students of the faculty, and of scholars who work with the FASS. The issues that are covered are those of the social sciences, as we understand them in our tradition, covering five areas: philosophy, law, history, psico-sociological, economics. The subjects treated as the journal's editorial profile has developed have ranged from theoretical issues to reports on conferences, to reviews of important new books. Particular attention is given in every number to selecting a text from the recent or distant past, but which always has particular significance for the main theme of the number; this text, the "classic page", is always directly connected with the editorial. The editorial committee ensures only that a correct methodology has been employed by the author of contributions. It does not vet the content of the articles, for which the sole responsibility lies with the authors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oikonomia.it |title=Home |publisher=Oikonomia.it |access-date=25 April 2015}}</ref> *''Studi'' is a series of monographs produced by the Istituto San Tommaso<ref name="Istituto San Tommaso"/> treating Thomistic themes including historical and contemporary hermeneutics of St. Thomas. A recent contribution to his series is the volume ''Sanctitatis causae – Motivi di santità e cause di canonizzazione di alcuni maestri medievali'', eds Margherita Maria Rossi e Teodora Rossi. *Angelicum University Press (AUP) was founded in 2002 to oversee the publication projects of the ''Angelicum''. *The ''Angelicum'' sponsors the "Angelicum University Channel," an online video channel that features news coverage of major Angelicum events and initiatives. *The ''Angelicum'' Office of Public Relations sponsors the "Angelicum Newsletter Blog" and the "Angelicum Alumni Website".

==Notable alumni==  {{further|List of people associated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas}} The following are some ''Angelicum'' notables from the relatively recent past.

===Some recent alumni===  [[File:JohannesPaul2-portrait.jpg|thumb|''Angelicum'' alumnus Pope John Paul II in 1993]] * Martin Grabmann, 1901 Doctorate in Philosophy, 1902 Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Historian of medieval theology and philosophy.<ref>Medieval Scholarship: Philosophy and the arts By Helen Damico. https://books.google.com/books?id=plHnAf32FeYC&q=grabmann&pg=PA107 Accessed 9 June 2011</ref> * Mariano Cordovani, 1909 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Philosopher, social and political theorist and Theologian of the Pontifical Household.<ref name="freeforumzone.leonardo.it">{{cite web |url=http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/lofi/STELLE-DOMENICANE/D8387544.html |title=Stelle Domenicane |lang=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930185240/http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/lofi/STELLE-DOMENICANE/D8387544.html |archive-date=30 Sep 2011 |website=freeforumzone.leonardo.it |access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref> * Marius J. Zerafa O.P., 1929-2022, Lectorate ad Licentiate in Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Social Sciences. Art historian, lecturer and instrumental in the successful recovery <ref> {{cite news |author= Times of Malta |date= 11 November 2004 |title= First-hand account of recovery of stolen masterpiece |url= https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/first-hand-account-of-recovery-of-stolen-masterpiece.107414 |location= Malta|access-date= January 23, 2023}}</ref> of Caravaggio's St. Jerome following its theft in 1984 from St. John's Co-Cathedral, Malta. * Marie-Dominique Chenu, 1920 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian. * Fulton Sheen, Venerable,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.va/en/news/the-venerable-fulton-j-sheen-a-model-of-virtue-for|title=The Venerable Fulton J. Sheen: a model of virtue for our time|access-date=9 June 2013|archive-date=7 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707001737/http://www.news.va/en/news/the-venerable-fulton-j-sheen-a-model-of-virtue-for|url-status=dead}}</ref> 1924. Philosopher, theologian, media personality, Roman Catholic Archbishop.<ref>''Encyclopedia of American Religious History'', 921; https://books.google.com/books?id=u-_6P2rMy2wC&pg=PA921 Accessed 3 March 2013; http://www.allendrake.com/elpasohistory/sheen/shncaps1.htm Accessed 4 July 2011</ref> * Joseph Clifford Fenton, 1931 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian. *Tit Liviu Chinezu, 1930 Doctorate in Sacred Theology, Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and bishop, imprisoned by the Romanian Communist regime, died in 1955 due to hypothermia and other untreated illnesses. Beatified by Pope Francis in 2019. *Ioan Suciu, 1931 Doctorate in Sacred Theology, Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop, imprisoned by the Romanian Communist regime, died in 1952 due to untreated illnesses, beatified by Pope Francis in 2019. On the occasion of obtaining his doctorate in theology, the renowned Dominican monk Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange congratulated Ioan Suciu and placed the university ring on his finger, a gesture that was very rare and signified exceptional appreciation. He had a deep friendship with Blessed Tit Liviu Chinezu, lasting until his death. * Józef Maria Bocheński, 1934 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Historian of logic, neo-scholastic Thomist philosopher and member of the "Cracow Circle". * Dominique Pire, 1936 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian and Nobel Laureate. * Cornelio Fabro, 1937 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Philosopher and theologian. * Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II), 1948 Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Philosopher and theologian.<ref>https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_prepontificato_en.html#1948 Accessed 6 October 2012. Even though his doctoral work was unanimously approved in June 1948, he was denied the degree because he could not afford to print the text of his dissertation (an ''Angelicum'' rule). In December 1948 a revised text of his dissertation was approved by the theological faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and Wojtyła was finally awarded the degree.</ref> * John T. Richardson, 1951 Doctorate in Philosophy. President of DePaul University * Abelardo Lobato Casado, 1952 Doctorate in Philosophy. Philosopher and theologian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arpato.org/chi_siamo_lobato.htm|title=ArPaTo.org - Fr. Abelardo Lobato Casado O.P.}}</ref> * Georges Cottier, 1952 Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Emeritus Theologian of the Pontifical Household, Cardinal.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=W8Ma_qbPQMUC&pg=PA86 Accessed 19 February 2013; http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/88132 Accessed 12 July 2011</ref> * Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, 1954 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian. * Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, 1954, Doctor of Canon Law. Bishop (Catholic Church), former head of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei.<ref>''Dios y Audacia: Mi Juventud Junto a San Josemaría'' by Julián Herranz Casado, 44. https://books.google.com/books?id=W_ETvL52sJ0C&pg=PA44 Accessed 4 April 2013</ref> * Barry Miller, 1959 Doctorate in Philosophy. Miller (1923-2006) completed his doctorate with a dissertation entitled ''Knowledge Through Affective Connaturality'', which was later published as ''The Range of the Intellect'', Chapman, London 1961.<ref>''Analysis of Existing: Barry Miller's Approach to God'', by Elmar J. Kremer, Bloomsbury, New York, London, 2005, 5. https://books.google.com/books?id=X2xVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 Accessed 12 February 2014</ref> * José Raúl Vera López, 1975 Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Bishop of Saltillo, Mexico. 2012 Nobel Peace Prize nominee known for defense of human rights and social justice.<ref name="angelicumnewsletterblog.20120402231939"/> * Timothy Dolan, 1976 Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Cardinal Archbishop of New York, President, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Time Magazine World's Most Influential People in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Guild of Catholic Lawyers of New York - Fordham Law |url=http://law.fordham.edu/institute-religion-law-lawyers-work/12234.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321183922/http://law.fordham.edu/institute-religion-law-lawyers-work/12234.htm |archive-date=21 March 2013 |access-date=4 April 2013}} Accessed 29 April 2012; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419004752/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111989,00.html] Accessed 30 March 2013</ref> * Marc Ouellet P.S.S., 1976 Licentiate in Philosophy. Cardinal considered ''papabile'' during the 2013 conclave.<ref>http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/papabile-day-men-who-could-be-pope-1 Accessed 29 March 2013; http://www.cantualeantonianum.com/2010/06/chi-e-marc-oullet-cardinale-e.html Accessed 12 March 2013</ref> *Tomas Tyn, Servant of God, 1978 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian.<ref>:it:Tomáš Týn Accessed 8 April 2013; http://www.studiodomenicano.com/testi/tesi/Tesi78/TynTesi78_IV-XVIII.pdf Accessed 8 April 2013.</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}} * Gregory Hesse, 1980 Doctor of Sacred Theology and Doctor of Canon Law. Austrian traditionalist Catholic priest, canon lawyer, and former personal secretary to Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hesse |first=Gregorius |title=An Introduction to the Theology of Gilbert Keith Chesterton |date=2023 |orig-date=1980 |publisher=KEY4INT Limited / Pontificium Athenaeum a Sancto Thoma Aquinate (Angelicum) |location=Rome |isbn=978-1738476800 |type=Doctoral dissertation |series=Written in conjunction with his doctoral studies at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas}}</ref> * Timothy T. O'Donnell, 1981 Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Theologian and President of Christendom College. * Robert Francis Prevost (Pope Leo XIV), 1984 Licentiate of Canon Law and 1987 Doctor of Canon Law * Robert Francis Christian, O.P., 1984 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2018/pope-francis-appoints-new-auxiliary-bishop-for-san-francisco-archdiocese.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143814/http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2018/pope-francis-appoints-new-auxiliary-bishop-for-san-francisco-archdiocese.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2018|title=Update: Pope appoints new auxiliary bishop for San Francisco Archdiocese|date=28 March 2018 |access-date=9 June 2018}}</ref> * Wojciech Giertych, 1989 Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Theologian of the Pontifical Household since 2005. * Donna Orsuto, 1990 Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Dame, Order of St. Gregory the Great, Professor of Spirituality Pontifical Gregorian University, co-founder Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, Consultor of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Jan. 2017, named by Pope Francis).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2017/01/14/0027/00062.html|title=Rinunce e nomine}}</ref> * Austin Anthony Vetter, 1992 Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Bishop of Helena, MT, USA.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pope Francis Appoints Reverend Austin A. Vetter as Bishop of the Diocese of Helena {{!}} USCCB|url=https://www.usccb.org/news/2019/pope-francis-appoints-reverend-austin-vetter-bishop-diocese-helena|access-date=2020-09-18|website=www.usccb.org}}</ref> * Ragheed Ganni, 2003 Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Chaldean Catholic priest, ecumenist and victim of anti-Christian violence after the Iraq War of 2003.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc | title=The names of pastoral workers, priests, men and women religious and lay catholics killed during 2007 | access-date=9 January 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209192344/http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc | archive-date=9 December 2008}}; {{cite web |url=http://www.chaldean.org/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/308/Iraqs-Persecution-of-Christians-Continues-to-Spiral-out-of-Control.aspx |title=Iraq's Persecution of Christians Continues to Spiral out of Control |access-date=7 February 2009 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208070803/http://www.chaldean.org/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/308/Iraqs-Persecution-of-Christians-Continues-to-Spiral-out-of-Control.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Some recent faculty and staff=== [[File:Garrigou1.jpeg|thumb|Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, ''Angelicum'' professor of Philosophy and Theology 1909–1960]] For a more complete list of notable ''Angelicum'' faculty throughout its history see List of people associated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas

* Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, 1909–1960 Philosophy and Theology.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Edouard Hugon, 1909–1929 Philosophy.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great » Page n… |url=http://domcentral.org/ecumenists-1900s/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414144342/http://domcentral.org/ecumenists-1900s/ |archive-date=14 April 2013 |access-date=4 April 2013}} </ref> * Thomas Pègues, 1909–1921 Theology.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Les sciences religieuses |publisher=Éditions Beauchesne |year=1996 |isbn=978-2-7010-1341-1 |editor-last=Laplanche |editor-first=François |series=Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine |location=Paris |page=520 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> His 21-volume ''Catéchisme de la Somme théologique'', 1919, which was translated into English in 1922,<ref>http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/catsum.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612184034/http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/catsum.htm |date=12 June 2021 }} Accessed 9 June 2011; Thomas Pègues (1866–1936) A French priest of the Dominican Order, Pègues served as a professor of theology at the ''Angelicum'' from 1909 to 1921. He was one of the prime movers of the anti-modernist movement of his day, as is expressed in his 1907 ''Revue Thomiste'' article "L'hérésie du renouvellement": Puisque c'est en se separant de la scolastique et de saint Thomas que la pensée moderne s'est perdue, notre unique devoir et notre seul moyen de la sauver est de lui rendre, si elle le veut, cette meme doctrine. Pègues went far towards bringing the moral theory of Neo-Thomism to a wider audience."</ref> * Mariano Cordovani,<ref name="freeforumzone.leonardo.it"/> 1910-1912 Theology, 1912-1921 Philosophy, 1927-1932 Rector.<ref>(25 February 1883 – 4 April 1950), Cordovani began teaching dogmatic theology at the ''Angelicum'' in 1910, and was a professor of philosophy from 1912 to 1921: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/felice-cordovani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed 27 May 2012. Cordovani served the ''Angelicum'' from 1927 to 1932 as Rector and professor of dogmatic theology. In 1935 he became the Provincial of the Dominican Roman Province and shortly after his election was made Master of the Sacred Palace by Pope Pius XI. He contributed especially to the encyclical ''Divini Redemptoris'' (1937), and afterward published his ''Appunti sul comunismo moderno'' treating the Church's position on communism. Pope Pius XII name him by ''motu proprio'' Theologian of the Secretary of State, an ''ad personam'' nomination that was without precedent in the history of the Church. He was the protagonist of a social debate in 1943 in the "L'Osservatore Romano" entitled "Il cittadino e la società" (The Citizen and Society) which treated the social role of Catholicism. He was one of the inspirations, along with Giovanni Battista Montini, future Pope Paul VI, of the celebrated Camaldoli Conference of July 1943, which produced an eponymous economic treatise that influenced the development of post-war democratic Italy. http://www.missionariedellascuola.it/chi_siamo/fondatrice/testimonianze.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619080022/http://www.missionariedellascuola.it/chi_siamo/fondatrice/testimonianze.html |date=19 June 2010 }} Accessed 9 June 2011</ref> * Jacques Marie Vosté, 1911–1949 Theology.<ref>(Bruges, Belgium, 3 May 1883 - Rome, 24 February 1949) Entered the Dominican Order in 1900 and was ordained in 1906. After studying under Paulin Ladeuze and Albin van Hoonacker at Louvain, he attended the École Biblique in 1909. Noted for his scholasticism in Syriac, particularly relating to Theodore of Mopsuestia and "Nestorian" writers. In 1929 he became a member and eventually Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and was also consultor to several Oriental Congregations. An excellent pedagoque and endowed with great linguistic ability, he wrote on a wide variety of scriptural subjects. A Festschrift in his honor [ Angelicum 20 (1943)] http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3407711642/vost-jacques-marie.html Accessed 30 March 2013; http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/teologia_res-ed08ee4e-87e8-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ Accessed 7 February 2013</ref> * Jacek Woroniecki, Servant of God, 1929–1933 Moral Theology and Pedagogy.<ref>(1878-1949) Lecturer at the University of Lublin in moral theology, rector of the university from 1922 to 1924. Woroniecki was the author of more than 70 works in moral theology and pedagogy. 22 August 1929 he was appointed professor of moral theology and pedagogy at the ''Angelicum''. He was the founder of Zgromadzenie Sióstr Dominikanek Misjonarek Jezusa i Maryi (the Congregation of Sisters Dominicans Missionaries of Jesus and Mary). {{cite web |title=Causes for Joy: Dominican Saints and Saints-To-Be: Servants of God |url=https://causesforjoy.blogspot.com/p/servants-of-god.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210024024/http://causesforjoy.blogspot.com/p/servants-of-god.html |archive-date=10 December 2011 |access-date=4 April 2013}} Accessed 1 April 2013</ref> * Józef Maria Bocheński, 1934–1940 Logic.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Paul-Pierre Philippe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/10/obituaries/pierre-paul-philippe.html|title=PIERRE PAUL PHILIPPE|date=10 April 1984|work=The New York Times}}</ref> 1935–1939; 1945–1950 History of Spirituality and of Mystical Theology. *Fabio Giardini, 1956–2006 (an ''Angelicum'' record) Theology.<ref name="domenicanisantacaterina.it">{{cite web |url=http://www.domenicanisantacaterina.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93 |title= Mostra Business, Notizie Popolari, Moda, Stile e Migliori Consigli per Te., Luglio 2022|website=www.domenicanisantacaterina.it |access-date=8 April 2013}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref> 1955 ''Angelicum'' Doctorate in Sacred Theology, 1987 Master of Sacred Theology.<ref name="domenicanisantacaterina.it"/> * Abelardo Lobato Casado, 1960–1989 Ontology, Dean of Philosophy Faculty 1967–1989.<ref>''Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española'': H-LL. Vol. IV, ed. by Gonzalo Diaz Diaz. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ulx2aYE7W5kC&pg=PA726 Accessed 30 March 2013. (San Pedro de la Viña (Zamora), 20 January 1925 - Granada, 18 May 2012) Lobato was a Spanish priest of the Dominican Order. He obtained his doctorate at the ''Angelicum'' under the direction of Belgian fathers Clemens Vansteenkiste (1910-1997) and Athanasius-Maria (Frans) De Vos, O.P (1909-1990) in 1952 with a dissertation entitled ''Avicena y santo Tomás escolásticas : la teoría del conocimiento'', See http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/v/vansteenkiste_c.shtml Accessed 12 March 2013, ''Chronique générale''. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, Tome 90, N°85, 1992. pp. 106-131, 107. Lobato began teaching ontology at the ''Angelicum'' in 1960. After 1967 he was elected five times as Dean of the Philosophy Faculty. In 1974 he organized the International Congress on the VII Centenary of the Death of St. Thomas Aquinas whose theme was "Saint Thomas Aquinas and the fundamental problems of our time." In 1976 he founded, with Fr. Benedetto D'Amore, the International Society of Thomas Aquinas. Lobato was a member of the Directive Council of the Roman Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas after 1980. In 1987 he became director of the Saint Thomas Institute of the ''Angelicum''. In 1982 he was nominated Habitual Observer for human rights of the European Council, Directive Committee for Human Rights. In 1986 he was made Master of Sacred Theology at the ''Angelicum'' in recognition of his prodigious scholarly work. In 1999 he was nominated Conustant for the Pontifical Council for the Family. In 1999 he was made President of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Pope John Paul II. In 2000 he was made director of the Roman journal ''Doctor Communis''. http://www.arpato.org/chi_siamo_lobato.htm Accessed 9 June 2011</ref> * Timothy Radcliffe, 1992–2001 Grand Chancellor of the ''Angelicum'' and Master of the Dominican Order.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Wojciech Giertych 1994–present Moral Theology. 2005–present Theologian of the Pontifical Household.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Timothy Dolan 1994–2001 Theology. Cardinal Archbishop of New York City.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Paul Murray, 1994–present Theology.{{fact|date=July 2022}} * Helen Alford, 1996 Social Sciences, 2001–present Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pust.it/ |title=Welcome to Angelicum University |date=10 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410071518/http://pust.it/ |archive-date=10 April 2011 }}</ref> * Charles Morerod, 1996 Dogmatic Theology, 2004-2009 Philosophy, 2009–2011 ''Rector Magnificus''.<ref>{{cite video | title = Charles Morerod, new secretary of the International Theological Commission | publisher = Rome Reports, via YouTube | location = Rome | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyLXb0ZWaSE | date = 9 July 2009 | access-date = 29 June 2010}}</ref>

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