Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, January 28

St. Thomas Aquinas is way too smart for me to understand, except at the most superficial level. His nickname was "The Dumb Ox". Think about that next time you run into someone who seems dumb as a box of rocks.

St. Thomas has a lot of patronages:

Academics; against storms; against lightning; apologists; Aquino, Italy; Belcastro, Italy; book sellers; Catholic academies, schools, and universities; chastity; Falerna, Italy; learning; pencil makers; philosophers; publishers; scholars; students; theologians

Pencil makers?