The Magnificent Albertus Magnus

So here's something I did not know, apparently I have a patron saint, one Albertus Magnus.

Albertus Magnus, saint, genius extraordinaire, scientist decade ahead of his time, and  apparently a  big fan of Cincinnati   centuries before any European even knew that was a thing. Image courtesy of wikimedia commons. 

He is apparently the Patron saint of natural scientists (chemists, biologists, physicists  astronomers, etc) and the students of said sciences, medical technicians... and Cincinnati, Ohio. I spent about a minute after reading that trying to find a connection, it's hard enough believing Ohio is blessed by anything. Going over his life, apparently he was the teacher of one Thomas Aquinas, a familiar name, during his life he was a geologist, zoologist, logician and chemist. He was an avid translator and critic of Aristotelian physics, going so far to translate them out of Arabic in a time when the crusades were the form of recreation for the clergy and nobles. He was a Dominican and bishop as well, and one of only 35 people in the history of the Catholic church to be endowed with the honor Doctor of the Church. Apparently he was also a scholasticist, a school of medieval thought focusing very heavily on logic. Seems like a cool dude.