[stfassisi]

St. Francis of Assisi on a list of great *intellectuals*. And I doubt he’d want to be there: it wasn’t his charism.

Intellectualism would never be anything a Saint would want to strive for anyway

[Tax-chick]

I don’t know that “intellectualism” is something a saint would deliberately seek after, but nonetheless, some of the saints would fit the general definition of an intellectual: someone with a significant output of ideas. Some have been great intellectuals: people with a prodigious output of excellent ideas. Thomas Aquinas, as you mentioned. St. Augustine. Pope John Paul II.