Overview
- Local santoral listings for Wednesday, January 28, 2026 highlight Thomas Aquinas as the principal commemoration and note additional observances including Saint Amadeus of Lausanne.
- Biographical summaries recount that Aquinas was born in Roccasecca in 1225 or 1227, died at Fossanova on March 7, 1274, and authored the Summa Theologiae.
- Pope Pius V declared Aquinas a Doctor of the Church in 1567, and Pope Leo XIII’s 1879 encyclical lauded him as the preeminent scholastic, followed by an 1880 brief naming him patron of Catholic universities, academies, and schools worldwide.
- Coverage also recalls that Pope John XXII canonized Aquinas in 1323 and that his patronage is commonly associated with students and teachers.
- The santoral entry explains the onomástica tradition, noting its roots in Spanish Christian practice and the custom of linking a person’s name day to a saint’s feast.