The Jews faced different demographic challenges than Catholics, so that might account for the difference.
I wondered about the sexual reject idea after reading that Thomas Aquinas’ father decided that his pudgy little boy didn’t look fit for breeding, so he sent Thomas to a monastery at the age of five, while the father encouraged Thomas’s better-looking brothers to marry and perpetuate the family.
I haven’t read the history but I would be bet that story is apocryphal. Tons of people at age 5 or even at age 11 look completely different than they do as adults and I’m sure people a thousand years ago knew that just as well as we know about Neville Longbottom
Thomas had eight siblings, and was the youngest child.
While the rest of the family’s sons pursued military careers,[12] the family intended for Thomas to follow his uncle into the abbacy;[13] this would have been a normal career path for a younger son of southern Italian nobility.[14]
Before St. Thomas Aquinas was born, a holy hermit shared a prediction with his mother, foretelling that her son would enter the Order of Friars Preachers, become a great learner and achieve unequaled sanctity.
You’re trying to make this about him as an individual, when in fact it seems like a combination of family needs and inheritance customs/law that even a hermit could predict in advance.
The Jews faced different demographic challenges than Catholics, so that might account for the difference.
I wondered about the sexual reject idea after reading that Thomas Aquinas’ father decided that his pudgy little boy didn’t look fit for breeding, so he sent Thomas to a monastery at the age of five, while the father encouraged Thomas’s better-looking brothers to marry and perpetuate the family.
I haven’t read the history but I would be bet that story is apocryphal. Tons of people at age 5 or even at age 11 look completely different than they do as adults and I’m sure people a thousand years ago knew that just as well as we know about Neville Longbottom
From a simple Google search:
And biography.com asserts,
You’re trying to make this about him as an individual, when in fact it seems like a combination of family needs and inheritance customs/law that even a hermit could predict in advance.