Ars Magna (Ramon Llull)

Blessed Ramon Llull, T.O.S.F.
Doctor Illuminatus writer, poet, theologian, mystic, mathematician, logician, martyr
Born	c. 1232 City of Mallorca (now Palma), Kingdom of Majorca
Died	c. 1315-1316 Mediterranean Sea (aboard a ship bound for Majorca)
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church (Third Order of St. Francis)
Beatified	1847 by Pope Pius IX
Feast	30 June
Influences	al-Farabi, Avicenna, Ibn Sab'in
Influenced	Peter of Limoges,Giordano Bruno, Leibniz

Ramon Llull, T.O.S.F. (Catalan: [rəˈmon ˈʎuʎ]; c. 1232 – c. 1315; Anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull; in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius) was a philosopher, logician, Franciscan tertiary and Majorcan writer. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show his work to have predated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is also considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Leibniz.

Within the Franciscan Order he is honored as a martyr. He was beatified in 1847 by Pope Pius IX. His feast day was assigned to 30 June and is celebrated by the Third Order of St. Francis.

Llull was born into a wealthy family in Palma, the capital of the newly formed Kingdom of Majorca. James I of Aragon founded Majorca to integrate the recently conquered territories of the Balearic Islands (now part of Spain) into the Crown of Aragon. Llull's parents had come from Catalonia as part of the effort to colonize the formerly Almohad ruled island. As the island had been conquered militarily, all the Muslim population who had not been able to flee the conquering Christians had been enslaved, even though they still constituted a significant portion of the island's population.

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