St. ANSELM of Canterbury 1033 - 1109 Archbishop St. Anselm was one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages. Anselm was born in Aosta, Italy, became a Benedict monk in 1060 in France, and was named arch-bishop of Canterbury in 1093. Anselm became the founder of Scholasticism and he attempted to use logic to proof the existence of God - a philosophy known as Ontology. He was declared a doctor (teacher) of the church in 1720. |
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