St. Thomas Aquinas (VVP 002) Ceramic Tree Decoration

You have several options here: 1) Leave the ornament as is with our default text. 2) Change just the text leaving the text oval and one of the three layered ornamental backgrounds as is. 3) Hide or delete the text oval and ornamental images to reveal the same image of the featured saint that appears on the front of the ornament. 4) Hide or delete the image of the featured saint on the back to reveal a blank, solid-colored area ready to receive a picture, a greeting, a Biblical passage, or any other text of your choosing. To choose a new background color, see the suggested coordinating hues on the Color Palette postcard for this image. Color Palette postcards are found in an image's associated COLLECTION and in the Special COLLECTION devoted just to color palettes. + St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 –7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings, especially the Summa Theologica, his last and incomplete work, which deals with the whole of Catholic theology. In his portraits, St. Thomas is usually depicted with an open book and writing with a quill pen. He is patron saint of theologians, booksellers, learning, academics, Catholic schools, and students at all levels of formal education. + Feast: January 28 + Image Credit (VVP 002): Detail of an antique NeoGothic image of St. Thomas Aquinas from a devotional goldprint in chromolithography originally published by K[arel] van de Vyvere Petyt, Bruges, Belgium, late nineteenth-early twentieth century. From the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The image is from the publisher’s unnumbered Dominican series.