Propaedeutics ad Sacram Theologiam in usum scholarum 1903 r.

Propaedeutics ad Sacram Theologiam in usum scholarum 1903 r. - Thona Maria Zigliara

Tommaso Maria Zigliara, OP (29 October 1833 – 11 May 1893) was a Corsican priest of the Catholic Church, a member of the Dominicans, a theologian, philosopher and a cardinal. Zigliara was born on 29 October 1833 at Bonifacio a seaport of Corsica.[1] He was baptized "Francesco".[2] His early classical studies were made in his native town under the Jesuit teacher, Father Aloysius Piras. At the age of eighteen he was received into the Order of Preachers at Rome, and made his religious profession in 1852 and studied philosophy at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. From the beginning Zigliara was a student of uncommon brilliancy. He completed his theology studies at Perugia where, on 17 May 1856, he was ordained by Gioacchino Pecci, Archbishop of Perugia and the future Pope Leo XIII.