c. 1403
Saint Thomas Aquinas Submitting His Office of Corpus Domini to Pope Urban IV
Taddeo di BartoloItalian (active Siena and environs, Perugia, Pisa, and Genoa), first documented 1383, died 1422
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In 1264, Pope Urban IV asked Thomas Aquinas to write a special liturgy for Corpus Christi, a new holiday that celebrated Christ's bodily presence in the bread and wine of the Roman Catholic Mass. Here Thomas kneels, with his manuscript in his hands, before the pope.
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