St. ANSELM
of Canterbury
1033 - 1109
Archbishop
St. Anselm was one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages.
Anselm was born in Aosta, Italy, became a Benedict monk in 1060 in France, and was named archbishop of Canterbury in 1093.
He became the founder of Scholasticism and he attempted to use logic to proof the existence of God - a philosophy known as Ontology. He was declared a doctor (teacher) of the church in 1720.