Tommaso Maria Zigliara [SEP] religious order
Tommaso Maria Zigliara
Tommaso Maria Zigliara, OP (baptismal name: Francesco; 29 October 1833 – 11 May 1893) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Dominican Order, a theologian, philosopher and a cardinal.
Early Life and Formation.
Zigliara was born at Bonifacio a seaport of Corsica. Zigliara's 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
philosophers as Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Etienne Gilson, and Jacques Maritain.
The content of the encyclical was strongly influenced by Tommaso Maria Zigliara professor from 1870 to 1879 at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, "Angelicum. "Zigliara also helped prepare the great encyclicals "Aeterni Patris" and "Rerum novarum" and strongly opposed traditionalism and ontologism in favor of the moderate realism of Aquinas."
Zigliara, a member of seven Roman congregations including the Congregation for Studies, was