Aquinas's father plans his religious career
1215
The Count of Aquino sent his young son Thomas, destined for the abbey of Monte Cassino, to begin his education there under Benedictine tutelage. The boy would eventually run away to join the new Dominicans, to his family's horror and later pride. His brothers kidnapped him and held him prisoner for a year in a family castle, trying without success to shake his vocation.
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Also in 1215 (4 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.