Magne Pater Augustine Preces nostras suscipe, Et per eas Conditori Nos placare satage, Atque rege gregem tuum Summum decus præsulum.
Amatorem paupertatis Te collaudant pauperes: Assertorem veritatis Amant veri judices: Frangis nobis favos mellis, De Scripturis disserens.
Quæ obscura prius erant Nobis plana faciens, Tu de verbis Salvatoris Dulcem panem conficis, Et propinas potum vitæ De Psalmorum nectare.
Tu de vita clericorum Sanctam scribis Regulam, Quam qui amant et sequuntur Viam tenent regiam, Atque tuo sancto ductu Redeunt ad Patriam.
Regi regum salus, vita, Decus et imperium: Trinitati laus et honor Sit per omne sæculum: Qui concives nos adscribat Supernorum civium. Amen.
[1] _The Ascent of Mount Carmel by S. John of the Cross._ Prefatory Essay on the Development of Mysticism in the Carmelite Order, by Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D., pp. 13-17. (London: Thomas Baker, 1906.)
[2] Valgornera, O.P., _Mystica Theologia D. Thomæ_, ed. Berthier. 2 Vols. Turin, 1890-91.
[3] "In ætate tam tenera et scibilium nescia, qui necdum se scire poterat, miro modo Deum adhuc nesciens, divino ductus instinctu scire quærebat. De quo futurum erat, ut, dum sic anxius maturius Deum præ aliis quæreret, clarius præ ceteris, quæ scire futurus erat, scriberet, quæ de Deo, ipso donante, studiosius et citius inveniret" (William of Tocco, _Vita B. Thomæ_ in the _Bollandists_, March 7, No. 5). This William of Tocco had seen and heard S. Thomas, and in 1319 took a prominent part in the Saint's canonization (see _Bollandists_, p. 653).
[4] Bernard Guidonis, _Boll._, No. 7, p. 659, note.
[20] Touron, _Vie de S. Thomas d'Aquin_, Paris, 1740, p. 353.
[26] _Prol._ to _Qu._ CLXXI. of the IIda., IIdæ.
[27] _Comment._ on IIa., IIæ., cxlviii. 4.
[29] See Bardenhewer, _Patrologie_, i. 319.
[30] Smith and Wace, _Dict. of Christian Biography_, i. 847.
[31] Fabricius, _Bibliotheca Latina_, _s.v._ Walafridus and Rabanus.
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