Colegio Mayor Aquinas

The Colegio Mayor Aquinas - Santo Tomás de Aquino is a male Residence Hall of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) attached to the Complutense University of Madrid that has spent decades providing young university students who travel to study in Madrid with a true home in which to be able to grow as people making the most of their university stage.

We are convinced that our long and rich tradition, linked to the University since its origins, has much to continue contributing to the university spirit today. Its motto, Veritas, clearly expresses the importance of the search for Truth as a fundamental value. Human life is a great search for authenticity in which there is no more subtle and destructive lie than the one with which one tries to deceive oneself. For this reason, we believe that a climate of trust, based on a free and responsible commitment, is the best path for people's development. On this path, study, as understood by the Dominican tradition, plays an essential role.

Studying allows us to free ourselves from ignorance and incorporate into our own lives everything good and beautiful that surrounds us. Studying means trusting our ability to know, it means cultivating the hope that existence has a meaning that can be revealed. The study, lived in a Dominican key, is the best antidote against relativism and fundamentalism. Both extremes coincide in their distrust of study and dialogue as tools to search for the Truth: the first leads us to indifference and mutual misunderstanding, and the second, to confrontation and even violence.