Patronages
According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:
Jobs
- Vatican Radio: Pope sends video message for feast of St Cajetan, consulted October 4, 2026
Feast day
- August 7 · General Roman Calendar
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Cajetan”
Founder of the Theatines, born October, 1480 at Vicenza in Venetian territory;
died at Naples in 1547.
Under the care of a pious mother he passed a studious and exemplary youth, and took his degree as doctor utriusque juris at Padua in his twenty-fourth year.
In 1506 he became at Rome a prothonotary Apostolic in the court of Julius II, and took an important share in reconciling the Republic of Venice with that pontiff.
On the death of Julius in 1523 he withdrew from the court, and is credited with founding, shortly after, an association of pious priests and prelates called the Oratory of Divine Love, which spread to other Italian towns.
Though remarkable for his intense love of God, he did not advance to the priesthood till 1516.
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