Interwoven with this medieval pilgrimage is Engelland’s own retracing of Thomas’s route while living in Rome with his wife and four children. Vivid descriptions and breathtaking photographs bring the landscapes, churches, and ordinary places of Thomas’s life into sharp focus, allowing readers to see what Thomas saw and to sense how truth arose for him through bodily experience.

More than biography or travel writing, this book reveals “the way of Aquinas” – his daring vision of the human good, of freedom ordered toward love, and of wisdom that heals and elevates.