Saint-Cajetan

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Saint-Cajetan

Date de la fête: août 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.

Il est né en Octobre 1480 dans une famille noble, et a reçu une éducation rigoureuse guidée par sa mère, après la mort de son père quand il n'avait que deux ans. Ses études de droit canonique et civil l’ont amené à travailler comme juriste à la cour du pape Jules II, qu’il a abandonnée à la mort du pape, afin d’étudier pour le sacerdoce.

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, il fonde l’une des maisons de son ordre à Naples, où il lutte contre la croissance de l’hérésie luthérienne. Il meurt le 6 août 1547, fête de la Transfiguration. Cela s'est produit à Naples alors que la ville était encore dans de graves problèmes spirituels, politiques et sociaux.

Saint Cajetan was canonized by Clement X in 1671.

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