To force a woman sent by his father to disuade him from the priesthood out of the room shows he was either asexual or homosexual. Is piety suggests the former. A heterosexual would have simply asked her to leave and not freak out. Or would have let her stay.

Still, I like Thomas. He gave us back Aristotle, which has been somewhat a mixed blessing but it gives us a good understand of the soul. Not the multi-stage version, which was wrong, but its relation to the body which is still applicable today and could be used to reason out why life begins at gastrulation, not earlier or later. Getting society to accept not later is probably has hard as getting the Vatican to accept not earlier.