Thomas Aquinas canonized
July 1323
John XXII proclaimed the Dominican friar a saint at Avignon, fifty years after his death. The canonization rehabilitated Aristotle within Catholic thought and made Thomism the intellectual backbone of the Dominicans, who championed it against Franciscan voluntarism. John could not, however, stop his Franciscan critics from damning him as a heretic over the poverty question.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.