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Thanks very much, Father John Mark. And that, Father Torrell is a man I was privileged to live with for

three years. And he's a fascinating character. He used to get up at five o'clock in the morning.

I mean, he was in his late 80s. He got up at five o'clock in the morning studying and studying the

scriptures and studying St. Thomas Aquinas. And he got very sick at one point. He was in hospital.

And I was asked to go and bring him communion. And he was there in his bed and this great, I mean,

this really, really significant scholar

and he he was lying there and he got out of bed when he asked he said have he got the lord and i said

i do he got out of bed down in his knees and he received the lord like he was a you know receiving

his first holy communion it was a most extraordinary thing extraordinary thing. And so he's a very,

very special guy. And I've given on your hand out a reference to one of his works, which is kind

of the most substantial work on that list, I'd say. So I changed the title of this talk just a

minute ago after hearing some people in the lodge saying, Thomas, who? So I say, that's an even

better title of the talk, Thomas who? So imagine this thing. At the age of 35, a Dominican friar

called Thomas, sitting down in his study in Paris to write in his own famously bad handwriting.

We'll see some samples of it later. The first few

chapters of a new book of Christian theology that would aim to take into account the objections

to Christianity, especially those of Muslims. He's beginning this new work and in the second

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