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Biography of Cajetan, St.
Name: Cajetan, St.
Birth Date: 1480
Death Date: August 7, 1547
Place of Birth: Vicenza, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: saint, reformer, religious leader
Cajetan, St.
St. Cajetan (1480-1547), who was born Gaetano da Thiene, was one of the earliest Italian Catholic reformers of the 16th century. He was a cofounder of the Clerks Regular, a religious order popularly known as the Theatines.Cajetan was born into an aristocratic family of Vicenza in October 1480. He studied at Padua and in 1504 received his doctorate in canon and civil law. In 1505 he went to Rome, where Pope Julius II invited him to join the papal service as a secretary. On Sept. 30, 1516, he was ordained a priest. Cajetan was a kind, energetic, and practical man whose life was marked by strict poverty and intense activity. With other men, including the humanist Pietro Bembo, he organized the Roman Divino Amore, or the Oratory of Divine Love--not to be confused with St. Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory. Cajetan's Oratory provided a program for common prayer and discussion of spiritual topics.…showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…with the exception of a few years in Rome and Venice, Cajetan spent the rest of his life. Ever the practical organizer, he was one of the first movers for a modern type of credit union to help the poor of the city. With his energetic life Cajetan united profound prayerfulness, severe penance, and adherence to the strictest kind of poverty. Toward the close of his life a riot broke out against the Inquisition, and Cajetan tried in vain to calm the disturbance. With this disappointment he died at Naples on Aug. 7, 1547. He was canonized on April 12, 1671. Further Reading A good biography of St. Cajetan is Paul H. Hallett, Catholic Reformer: A Life of St. Cajetan of Thiene (1959). Written in a popular style, which is at times pietistic, it provides a full and detailed study. See also Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater's edition of Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. 3 (1956).
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