Gerald Vann Quote
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
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About Gerald Vann
Laurence Samuel Gerald Vann, O.P. (24 August 1906 - 14 July 1963), who published as Gerald Vann, was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher.
Vann was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929. He obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Collegio Angelico, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome in 1931.
Vann's books include works on just war theory and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Vann died in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1963 after a long illness.
Vann was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929. He obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Collegio Angelico, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome in 1931.
Vann's books include works on just war theory and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Vann died in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1963 after a long illness.