The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas is on a three-week tour throughout the United States, in a rare chance for people to see a first-class relic of a Doctor of the Church.

St. Thomas Aquinas, namesake of St. Thomas University, newly sculpted by Tim Schmalz, who did cloaked “Homeless Jesus” at Basilica in Minneapolis.

The relic of St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull is processed at Providence College, Dec. 4, 2024, during a tour stop in Providence, R.I. (Video screen grab) Saints were even said to collude in this process.

St. Thomas Aquinas was canonized in 1323, officially named Doctor of the Church in 1567 and proclaimed the protagonist of orthodoxy during the modernist crisis at the end of the 19th century.