The Dominican St. Albert the Great

Saint Albert the Great was a Dominican friar who lived in the 13th century. He was named, by virtue of his writings and teachings, a Doctor of the Church in 1931. He is well known for having been the teacher of another great Dominican theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. The Dominican Friars of the Central Province name themselves after Albert the Great. You can read more and find a great many links about this saint on their website.

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for “God is Charity” (1 John 4:8)

– St. Albert the Great