In January 1274 St. Thomas Aquinas set out from Naples, where he had been teaching since October 1272, to attend the second Council of Lyons. He was under fifty years of age, and though he was extremely sensitive to physical pain, there is no evidence that his health was bad. He had been working as hard as ever during 1273, when he published, among other works, his commentaries on Romans, First Corinthians, and Aristotle’s De Generatione and De Cœlo. Moreover his commentaries on the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo and on the Decalogue are the notes of his sermons preached in the vernacular during the Lent of 1273. Hence there is very little to suggest that he was in failing health, and at all events, he was well enough to undertake, on foot and in winter, the long journey from Naples to Lyons. He got no further than Fossanuova, some seventy miles from Naples, where he was taken suddenly ill, and died on March 7th.