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eighteen folio volumes. The University of Paris had adopted him as one of 

 her sons, and was proud of being able to own him as such. But Charles of 

 Anjou, King of Naples, was anxious to place him at the head of that Univer- 

 sity, and induced Pope Clement IV. (Fig. 44) to recall him to Italy. Thomas 

 Aquinas reluctantly obeyed, for he was in declining health, and afflicted with 

 premature infirmities. The frequent journeys which he had been obliged to 

 take in the interests of the Church added to his fatigues, and while on his 



Fig. 44. Portrait of Clement IV. Fresco Painting, on gold ground, in Mosaic, in the 

 Basilica of St. Paul-without-the- Walls at Rome (Thirteenth Century). 



way to the Council of Lyons, in 1274, he was compelled to break the journey 

 near Terracina, at a Cistercian monastery, where he died, after a few days' 

 illness, at the age of forty-eight. 



Thomas Aquinas, whom the Church afterwards placed amongst her saints, 

 left the highest reputation behind him in the Paris schools. He was called 

 the Second St. Augustine, the Angel of the Schools, the Angelic Doctor, the 

 Doctor of Doctors. In fact, his was the only theology taught in most of the 

 Catholic schools subsequently to the thirteenth century. 



