Italy: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), altarpiece in Ascoli Piceno, Carlo Crivelli (1430 - 1495), 1476

Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274), was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.

He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio.

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