Saint Albert The Great: Patron of Science

On the occasion of the feast of Saint Albert The Great: Patron of Science, we have decided to include in the blog a short biography about this incredible saint and scientific.

Beginning of Saint Albert The Great's live
Saint Albert was born in Launingen, Bayern in the year 1193.
He studied aristotellic philosophy at the university of Padua, where he took his habits of the Saint Domingo of Guzmán's order. He taught in the most prestigious universities of the whole Europe and worked in many convents all over Germany.
In the university of Paris he translated, commented and clasified thosands of old books, mainly related to Aristoteles.

Saint Albert The Great and science
Saint Albert The Great changed completly the idea of experimentation. For him, experimentation consisted on obseving, describing and clasifying. Saint Albert The Great realized and enormous enciclopedic work, constructing with this the basis for his most famous pupil: Saint Tomas of Aquino.
He also worked on Botany and Alchemy, highlighted by the discovery of arsenic in 1250.
In the fields of Geography and Astronomy, he explained that Earth was an sphere.

Bishopric and death
Between 1259 and 1260, he was ordered bishop of Ratisbona, chagethat he would leave soon.
In 1263, The Pope Urbano IV accepted his resignation, letting him return to his old life in the Wurzburg´s community, teaching in Cologne.
He died at the age of 87.
He is buried in the crypt Saint Andrew´s church in Cologne

 Saint Albert The Great canonification
He was beatified in 1622.
In 1872 and 1927, the German bishops asked unsuccesfully for his canonization.
On December 16, 1931, The Pope Pius XI, Proclaimed Saint Albert The Great Doctor of the Churchwich is equivalent to the canonification.