"It is an unhistorical legend that Luther burned the Summa Theologica along with the papal bull in the marketplace at Wittenberg. The true story of that incident, however, makes a more telling point. A recently uncovered report of that auto-da-fe testifies that there was the intention of burning the Summa along with the papal document, but no one could be found who was willing to part with his copy!"
-Josef Pieper in The Silence of Saint Thomas.
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