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# Let's Celebrate St. Albert
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/52314/
- Published: 2020-11-15T13:01:23.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-15T13:01:23.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, Middle Ages, St. Albert, #wpChunk

#### (Although, to be honest, I can't hear the name "Albert" without thinking about "Fat Albert.")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Albert-the-Great.jpg)

November 15th: Feast Day of St. Albert.

I've often wondered whether St. Albert was sad when his greatest student, St. Thomas Aquinas, died before him. Together, I think they capture both the true greatness and a kernel of greatness in the Catholic Middle Ages:

True Greatness: Thomas Aquinas' philosophy is fundamentally the work of an integrated whole, both in the man and a society that allowed such a man to flourish.

Kernel of Greatness: St. Albert's science heralded the coming of the modern age and its love of science. Despite modern science's immense and tragic shortcomings, its jaw-dropping accomplishments can't be denied. Its accomplishments are owed to a medieval culture that respected science, as evidenced in St. Albert.

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Mental Floss just uploaded a video that debunks myths about the Middle Ages.

Much of it sucks: it starts with **[the canard that everyone in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat](https://amzn.to/2ICUW53?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**. It includes the Orient and indigenous cultures in America. The "Middle Ages" is a European historical reference point, but political correctness requires a reference to the rest of the world. It also celebrates Islam a bit.

But it has some redeeming characteristics. It acknowledges the Middle Ages' great learning, its establishment of universities, and its interest in the outside (non-European world).