The man wrote as he breathed, penning around nine million words before his death. There was no reason to question Aquinas’s spiritual devotion either. When Aquinas first decided he would join the Dominican order, his family went ballistic. To dissuade him, his family locked him in his room with a nude prostitute! Thomas raged with anger, chasing the prostitute away with a red-hot brand plucked from the fire. Slamming the brand on the door, Thomas left the sign of the cross forever burned into the wood. Thomas is respected not only for his unflinching, Joseph-like commitment to holiness but for
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