NOVEMBER 8 - BLESSED JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
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Doctor Subtilis
Johannes Scotus
The Subtle Doctor
Memorial
8 November
Profile
Son of a wealthy farmer. Friar Minor at Dumfries where his uncle Elias Duns was superior. Studied at Oxford and Paris. Ordained 17 March 1291 at Saint Andrew’s Church, Northampton at age 25. Lectured at Oxford and Cambridge from 1297 to 1301 when he returned to Paris to teach and complete his doctorate.
John pointed out the richness of the Augustinian–Franciscan tradition, appreciated the wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and the Muslim philosophers, and still managed to be an independent thinker. His ideas led to the founding of a school of Scholastic thought called Scotism. In 1303 when King Philip the Fair tried to enlist the University of Paris on his side in a dispute with Pope Boniface VIII over the taxation of Church property, but John dissented and was given three days to leave France.
He returned to Paris in 1305, and …More
Blessed John Duns Scotus - November 8
Doctor Subtilis
Johannes Scotus
The Subtle Doctor
Memorial
8 November
Profile
Son of a wealthy farmer. Friar Minor at Dumfries where his uncle Elias Duns was superior. Studied at Oxford and Paris. Ordained 17 March 1291 at Saint Andrew’s Church, Northampton at age 25. Lectured at Oxford and Cambridge from 1297 to 1301 when he returned to Paris to teach and complete his doctorate.
John pointed out the richness of the Augustinian–Franciscan tradition, appreciated the wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and the Muslim philosophers, and still managed to be an independent thinker. His ideas led to the founding of a school of Scholastic thought called Scotism. In 1303 when King Philip the Fair tried to enlist the University of Paris on his side in a dispute with Pope Boniface VIII over the taxation of Church property, but John dissented and was given three days to leave France.
He returned to Paris in 1305, and received his doctorate. He then taught there, and in 1307 so ably defended the Immaculate Conception of Mary that the university officially adopted his position. Drawing on this work, Pope Pius IX solemnly defined the Immaculate Conception of Mary in 1854.
The Franciscan minister general assigned John to the Franciscan school in Cologne, Germany; he died there the next year.
Born
1266 at Duns, Berwick, Scotland
Died
8 November 1308 of natural causes at Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia (in modern Germany)
buried in a Franciscan church near the Cologne cathedral
Beatified
6 July 1991 by Pope John Paul II (cultus confirmed)
20 March 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Additional Information
Catholic Encyclopedia: Blessed John Duns Scotus
Catholic Encyclopedia: Scotism and Scotists
Duns Scotus, Defender of the Immaculate Conception, by Father Berard Vogt, O.F.M.
New Catholic Dictionary
Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, 7 July 2010
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
Treatise on God as First Principle, by Blessed John Duns Scotus
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Drouet
Elizabeth of the Trinity
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Gervadius
Godfrey of Amiens
Gregory of Einsiedeln
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Maria Crucified Satellico
Maurus of Verdun
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Placidia of Verona
Tysilio of Wales
Willehad of Bremen
Wiomad of Trèves
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All Deceased Dominicans
All Saints of the Diocese of Evry
All Saints of Bologna, Italy
All Saints of Wales
Augustinian Martyrs of Spain
Four Crowned Martyrs
Martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Conceptionist Martyrs of Madrid – 10 beati
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