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8 The Cult of Thomas Aquinas’s Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism

This chapter reconstructs the cultural and theological politics of the celebrations
 of Thomas Aquinas’s translatio, looking closely at the liturgy used to
 commemorate the day. It argues that the veneration of Aquinas’s relics, as
 well as the masses said in his honor, enabled him to figure as a healer and
 an agent of reform. Aquinas comes to be projected as an Avignon saint, in a
 cult promulgated by Elias Raymundus of Toulouse. This chapter shows how
 commemorative practices interwove to produce this reforming Avignon
 saint, particularly looking at hagiography, ritual, and, the display of relics.