São Caetano

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São Caetano

Data da festa: Ago 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.

Ele nasceu em outubro de 1480 em uma família nobre, e recebeu uma educação rigorosa guiada por sua mãe, após a morte de seu pai quando ele tinha apenas dois anos. Os seus estudos de direito canónico e civil levaram-no a trabalhar como jurista na corte do Papa Júlio II, que abandonou após a morte do Papa, a fim de estudar para o sacerdócio.

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.

Em 1533 fundou uma das casas da sua ordem em Nápoles, onde lutou contra o crescimento da heresia luterana. Isto ocorreu em Nápoles quando a cidade ainda estava em sérios problemas espirituais, políticos e sociais.

Saint Cajetan was canonized by Clement X in 1671.

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