We are golden

Needless to say I needed to do a little research on old Tom Tom after our little adventure to find some cool stuff to blog about. For whatever reason when we were visitng Fossanova I was really intrigued by the little room he died in. It was like a shoe box! Then I began wondering how he died. My vivid imagination started making up all these fun little stories explaining the death of St. Thomas Aquinas. The best one I came up with involved his sister who lived in Fossanova, her husband, and murder. Exciting. So I started researching how he died and in just about everything it says his cause of death is "unknown" which is really lame. Then I found in an article about him that says that Dante is convinced that he was murdered, poisoned even. Other important people even coroborate this story. The things that make him such a big deal would stir controversy now. The whole more or less combining of theology and science topic is always a touchy one. I can't imagine all of his ideals being well received by everyone. Certainly someone wanted to kill him right? Of course I hope he died of natural causes peacefully in his shoebox sized room, but I do love a good scandal.