St. Albertus Magnus

• c. 1205 - c. 1278
• German friar and polymath whose work ranged from philosophy and theology to psychology and the natural sciences.
• He was devoted to the idea that Christian faith and experimental science were not hostile to one another.
•  His enemies accused him of neglecting theology for the practice of sorcery and magic.
• But his reputation remained fundamentally intact and he was beatified in the 17th century and canonised in 1931