162: How did Thomas Aquinas Die: Neurosurgery and Brain Death [Podcast]

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Dr. Taylor Marshall

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🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The greatest mind of Catholicism, Saint Thomas Aquinas, died of a brain injury. Today I talk to Dr. Paul Camarata, a Catholic brain surgeon and neurosurgery researcher about the final timeline of Aquinas’ life and demise. Dr Camarata proposes a scientific solution to the mysterious and puzzling death of Saint Thomas Aquinas. We also discuss whether Thomas may have had mild Aspergers/Autism and discuss Dr. Camarata’s letter to Pope Francis regarding the resignation of Cardinal Burke and Grand Master Michael Festing from the Knights of Malta. The Taylor Marshall Show Podcast is now also available on Spotify: Play “Taylor Marshall Show” inside Spotify. Listen to audio or watch the Youtube video interview by clicking here. If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. If you find this podcast episode helpful, please share this podcast on Facebook. Announcements: * The podcast is now on my channel on Youtube.com * The complete Sword and Serpent Trilogy is now published, including the the third Book: Storm of Fire and Blood. * Download the Study Guide at: http://swordandserpent.com * New classes at New Saint Thomas Institute. We have just begun our New Testament Studies curriculum. Please visit: newsaintthomas.com for more details. I’d love to read your feedback: While you listen to today’s podcast, would you please take 30 seconds to write a review? Please click here to Rate this Podcast! Please Share Your Feedback: iTunes: 1,706,247 downloads on iTunes as of today. * Youtube: SHOUT OUTS: A huge “shout out” to all 741 (!) of you who wrote amazing 5-star reviews at iTunes. Please rate this podcast by clicking here. From there you can leave a review. I appreciate you for this! Thank you! Subscribe to This Weekly Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or Youtube: Apple/Mac Users: Please subscribe via iTunes by clicking here and then clicking on “View in iTunes.” Android Users: For listening to The Taylor Marshall Show on Android devices (free) using the Stitcher app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're joined with Dr. Paul Camarada. He is a neurosurgeon. He teaches at the
0:06.2	University of Kansas Hospital School of Medicine and he's a specialist in
0:10.8	cerebral vascular surgery and today we're going to talk about St. Thomas Aquinas and you may think well why are you talking about neurosurgery in Thomas Aquinas and the answer is is because St Thomas Aquinas died of head trauma and Dr. Paul Camarada you probably
0:26.0	know him from the Saint Cass he's produced how many is that Dr. Camarada how many
0:29.7	episodes? A hundred and forty five episodes on the Saints.
0:34.2	They're excellent.
0:34.8	I've been listening to them for years.
0:37.8	And so he loves the Saints, but he also loves neurosurgery.
0:41.6	And so he and I've been talking for a couple years now on this idea that St. Thomas Aquinas in his final moments died of a swelling of the brain and he's going to share with us more information from his expertise.
0:55.4	He's written over 50 something articles on neurosurgery. He's a father. He's a Knight of Malta,
1:01.6	a dedicated Catholic, and a lover of St. Thomas Aquinas.
1:05.0	So I'd like to welcome Dr. Camarada.
1:07.0	Thank you, Dr. Marshall.
1:09.0	It's great to be here.
1:10.0	So how did you get interested in this topic?
1:12.0	You originally reached out to me and we started going back and forth on it and there was some Latin texts that you wanted translated regarding the final days of Aquinas and I looked at those and I found it fascinating that here's this dedicated
1:25.4	Catholic neurosurgeon looking into the final evidence of maybe in my opinion the greatest brain ever in the Catholic church happens to die through this tragic means.
1:40.0	Just think of what we would have had had Aquinas had you know a normal life expectancy
1:44.6	another 20 years perhaps to die at age 49 I think I first got interested in I
1:50.1	think it may have been as I was putting a podcast together on Gregory the 10th who was the
1:57.4	Pope at the time and I found out how Aquinas died and at that point in time we you know I started looking
2:07.0	up things about his death and trying to look at all the extant literature that we had that described what happened during those last few days of his life,
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