St. Cajetan

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St. Cajetan

Festtag: Aug. 07

Saint Cajetan was one of the great reformers of the Church during the period of the Reformation, remaining loyal to the Church regardless of the corruptions and excesses that led many others to betray Her.

Er wurde im Oktober 1480 in eine Adelsfamilie geboren und erhielt eine strenge Ausbildung, die von seiner Mutter geleitet wurde, nach dem Tod seines Vaters, als er gerade zwei Jahre alt war. Seine kanonischen und zivilrechtlichen Studien führten ihn dazu, als Jurist am Gericht von Papst Julius II. zu arbeiten, das er nach dem Tod des Papstes aufgegeben hatte, um für das Priestertum zu studieren.

He was ordained at the age of 36 and founded a community of priests, who lived a monastic form of poverty and prayer and lived and worked closely with the poor in order to combat the political and spiritual corruption of the times. His order, the Congregation of Clerks Regular, were popularly called the Theatines, after the title of one of his companions, Giovanni Pietro Caraffa, the Bishop of Chieti (Theate in Latin), who later was elected Pope Paul IV.

His concern for the poor always had a strong presence in his life, and he practised charity constantly, whether in personal encounters or in the founding institutions such as a hospital for those with incurable diseases. He even founded a bank for the poor in order to lend money to them without the usual high interest charged by other money lenders.

1533 gründete er eines seiner Ordenshäuser in Neapel, wo er gegen das Wachstum der lutherischen Häresie kämpfte. Er starb am 6. August 1547, dem Fest der Verklärung. Dies geschah in Neapel, als die Stadt noch in ernsthaften spirituellen, politischen und sozialen Schwierigkeiten steckte.

Saint Cajetan was canonized by Clement X in 1671.

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