Author’s Preface

The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

“…On the Truth of the Catholic Faith Against the Errors of Nonbelievers). 28 Pope Urban also commissioned Aquinas to compose a commentary on the Gospels, known as the Catena Aurea or "Golden Chain," exclusively using quotations from Church Fathers, strung together like a running commentary from the pen of a single author. (Aquinas was initially asked to work on only two Gospels; his Franciscan contemporary, St. Bonaventure, was asked to prepare the other two, but…”