Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 I'm Maria, Christina, and the name of the father and the son, the Holy spirit. Amen. It's the feast of Saint Albert, the great doctor, the church he's called the great, because, because of his knowledge, he's one of those guys that kinda knew everything there was to know. And that is almost non Xander exaggeration. I mean, he wasn't Solomon, but he's one of those kinds of characters on, on the world stage. He, uh, he wrote to give an idea of his writing. He wrote some 20 million words. So if you took your standard about 200 page novel, that will be 400 books. If it was that size, that's how much he wrote. He wrote on everything, everything from veterinarianism to mineralogy, astronomy, to, uh, to theology and philosophy. I mean, covered it all, you know, dentistry, herbal medicine, the guy wrote about everything. It's just incredible. Any investigative things.
Speaker 0 00:00:54 He's, he's really the one that brought Aristotle to the West and he make commentaries in their style. On the now natural sciences. Aristotle would say something and Saint Albert, I have not observed this for my associates. And I have not observed, he'd look into things that people claim like, you'll see the Pelican that it's supposedly fed it's it's young, but by its own blood from its breasts. And he studied up pelicans live and said, that's not true at the time. People thought Eagles only had they'd lay eggs, but destroy all. But once we had a guy Lord over a cliff, look at it to see, and he said, well, that's not actually how it works. There's more than one egg, et cetera. So he looked into things. That's why it's a patron of natural sciences. Quiets. The 12th may have the patron of scientists, but he's one of the, one of the most famous things he did is be a teacher of a guy named st.
Speaker 0 00:01:41 Thomas Aquinas, st. Albert. The great was a Dominican. He was teaching at cologne and in Paris. And, uh, both times with the st. Thomas as a student at st. Thomas was a great big, quiet man, half Sicilian German. And he sat there. It was very quiet. And so the other students would call them the dumb ox, cause he didn't have anything to say. And Saint Albert was the one that made that famous quote. I tell you that someday the roaring of that ox will, will fill the world. Anyway, Saint Albert, the great became a Bishop in 1260, but resigned. I think it was Bishop Regensburg. I'm not totally sure, but I think it's Regensburg resigned at 1262 to just keep on living his religious life without that kind of burden. The only other thing I can say about him right now work since the berberine is a provincial for quite a while in the Dominican's of the German province. So it was all the way from what's now Luxembourg and Belgium, and that part of the country lowlands all the way into Latvia and he'd cover all that walking around, visiting all the religions houses. Anyway, in spite of all that kind of journey turning around, he still found the time to commit some 20 million words to paper. Just a little bit on Saint Albert, the grades.
