San Cayetano

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San Cayetano

Fecha de la fiesta: 07 de agosto

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.

Nació en octubre de 1480 en una familia noble, y recibió una educación rigurosa guiada por su madre, después de la muerte de su padre cuando solo tenía dos años. Sus estudios de derecho canónico y civil le llevaron a trabajar como jurista en el tribunal del Papa Julio II, que abandonó a la muerte del Papa, con el fin de estudiar para el sacerdocio.

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.

En 1533 fundó una de las casas de su orden en Nápoles, donde luchó contra el crecimiento de la herejía luterana. Murió el 6 de agosto de 1547, fiesta de la Transfiguración. Esto ocurrió en Nápoles cuando la ciudad todavía estaba en serios problemas espirituales, políticos y sociales.

Saint Cajetan was canonized by Clement X in 1671.

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