In the year 1205, St. Albert the Great was born in Lauingen, Swabia. His father, military lord in the army of Emperor Frederick II, was amongst Albert’s great role models and was a key reason to his immense success as a scientist. As an adolescent, Albert studied at the University of Padua and there fell under the spell of Blessed Jordan of Saxony, the Dominican who made the rounds of the universities of Europe drawing the best young men of the universities into the Dominicans. After several teachings based on the wonderful works of Blessed Jordan of Saxony, he then came in 1241 to the University of Paris, where he lectured in theology. While teaching in Paris, he was assigned by his order in 1248 to set up a house of studies for the order in Cologne. For this assignment he gathered around him a band of theologians and his greatest pupil, Thomas Aquinas.
In 1260, Albert was appointed bishop of Regensberg where he resigned after three years, and was called to be an adviser to the......

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