Here is the famous statue of our Patron Saint. Famous, because it bears absolutely no resemblance to the great Doctor of the Church! The one thing that every schoolboy knows about St Thomas Aquinas is that he was very fat - whilst our statue shows someone who is extremely thin. How on earth Archbishop's House approved of this design in 1974 is beyond me! Still, the Easter flowers are very attractive! St Thomas Aquinas is shown holding a chalice, and of course we are grateful to him for his wonderful Eucharistic hymns such as 'Godhead here in hiding', 'The heavenly Word proceding forth' (which includes the O salutaris), and 'Of the glorious body telling' (which includes the Tantum ergo).
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