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John of Paris

 or Jean de Paris or John the Deaf or John Quidort

(born c. 1255, Paris, France—died Sept. 22, 1306, Bordeaux, Gascony) Dominican monk and disciple of St. Thomas Aquinas. A lecturer at the University of Paris, he wrote on the separation of church and state and the limits of papal authority. His controversial view on the nature of the Eucharist was censured, and he was sentenced to perpetual silence; he died before his appeal could be decided.