De Alberto magno et Thoma de Aquino.
Albert the Great
Albert the Great, a German Dominican unmatched in the sciences, resigned the bishopric of Regensburg and taught in Cologne for eighteen years until his death in 1280.
At this time there was Albert the Great, a German cleric of the Order of Preachers, who had no equal in the sciences. He resigned the bishopric of Regensburg and lectured actively in the city of Cologne for eighteen years. In the year of our Lord 1280, at the age of eighty, he was near death, and at Cologne he died.
Thomas of Aquino
Thomas of Aquino, a Dominican disciple of Albert, flourished at the same time and was later canonized by Pope John XXII.
At the same time there flourished Brother Thomas of Aquino, a disciple of Albert's, of the Order of Preachers. He was later canonized by Pope John XXII.
Read the original Latin
Hoc tempore fuit Albertus magnus clericus 2 de Alimania ordinis Predicatorum, qui in scienciis parem non babuit. Hicc episcopatum Ratisponensem resignans in civitate Coloniensi xviil annis actu fuit legens, et etatis sue anno LXXX et domini anno MCCLXXX moriturd, et Colonie est defunctus. Floruit et eodem tempore frater® Thomas de Aquino discipulus Al berti ordinis Predicatorum (ptoi —20.) , qui postea canonizatus fuit, a papa Jo hanne xxn.
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