St. Albert the Great, who was also known as Albert of Cologne,was a great thinker of his time. He was a great natural scientists, physicist, theologian, mathematician, chemist, geographer, and astronomer. St. Albert also was a teacher of St.Thomas Aquinas. St. Albert was born around 1200 AD. There is not much known about his childhood and birth, and many sources disagree on his early life. Research suggests he was sent to Padua University, while he was there he was taught in the writing of Aristotle. While he was at Padua University he had a vision of Blessed Virgin Mary, in this vision he was told that he would excel intellectually, but he would lose his intellect in his old age. This vision inspired him to join the Dominican Orders, and
