Aug 07

Saint Cajetan of Thiene

August 7th XVI century

Name
Cayetano (Masculino)
Other saints
Other saints named Cayetano
Born
en Vicenza, in current Italy
Dead
August 7th 1547 in Nápoles, in current Italy
Process
Celebration
August 7th
Religious
de los Clérigos Regulares
Picture of Saint Cajetan of Thiene Fuente: wikimedia.org
Saint Cajetan of Thiene, presbyter, who in Naples, in the Campania region, piously gave himself to charities, especially for sufferers of incurable diseases, promoted brotherhoods to religiously educate the laity and instituted the Theatines, to the reform the Church, teaching his disciples to follow the primitive way of apostolic life. Roman martyrology