00:00Prepare to meet a giant, not in size, but in spirit.
00:06Albert, born around 1200 in Germany, was not destined for monastic life.
00:12Born into a noble family, he studied in Padua where a decisive encounter led him to join the Dominicans.
00:19A decision that will change the course of intellectual history.
00:23Albert quickly reveals himself to be a mind with an insatiable curiosity.
00:27He teaches across Europe, from Cologne to Paris.
00:31And his aura attracted students from everywhere, including a certain Thomas Aquinas who would become his most brilliant disciple.
00:39Imagine a professor capable of juggling theology, philosophy, botany, zoology, astronomy, alchemy, the
00:48physical.
00:49A veritable living encyclopedia.
00:52His grand project? To show that reason and faith can go hand in hand.
00:58He tackled the writings of Aristotle, then viewed with suspicion, in order to integrate them into Christian thought.
01:05But Albert is not content with just books.
01:07He observes, he experiments.
01:10It is said that he had a laboratory and that he even created a talking automaton.
01:15He studied plants, animals, and minerals with astonishing precision for his time, laying the foundations of this
01:23which would later be called the scientific method.
01:27For him, studying nature is contemplating the work of God, it is marveling at creation.
01:35Having served for a time as Bishop of Regensburg, he quickly preferred to return to his books and his students.
01:39He spent his last years in Cologne, surrounded by his writings, tireless seekers of truth.
01:47Today, Albert is revered as a Doctor of the Church, the only one to bear the title of Magnus, the
01:54Big.
01:54He is the patron saint of scientists and students of natural sciences.
01:59What we remember about him is this incredible thirst for knowledge, this bridge he built between
02:04faith and reason, and above all, its timeless message.
02:09Knowledge, in all its forms, brings us closer to the divine.
02:14A true genius who invites us to look at the world with curiosity and wonder.
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