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Thomas of Celano

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Thomas of Celano (chālä`nō), fl. 13th cent., Italian Franciscan friar. One of the first companions of St. Francis Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi (əsē`zē)
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, he wrote the two principal lives of St. Francis, one for Gregory IX and the other for the minister general of the order. He was an early Franciscan missionary to Germany. He probably composed the sequence Dies irae Dies irae (dē`ās ē`rā) [Lat.,=day of wrath], hymn of the Roman Catholic Church.
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 and its celebrated plainsong.


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