Saint Cajetan


Cajetan

Portrait of Saint Cajetan
Priest and Confessor
Born1 October 1480
Vicenza, Veneto, Republic of Venice (now Italy)
Died7 August 1547(1547-08-07) (aged 66)
Naples, Campania, Kingdom of Naples
Venerated inCatholic Church
Beatified8 October 1629, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Urban VIII
Canonized12 April 1671, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Clement X
Feast7 August
AttributesPriest's cassock
Book
PatronageBankers; unemployed people; workers; gamblers; document controllers; job seekers; good fortune; Albania; Italy; Ħamrun (Malta); Argentina; Brazil; El Salvador; Guatemala; Labo, Camarines Norte, Philippines

Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene CR (6 October 1480 – 7 August 1547), known as Saint Cajetan, was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines. He is recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church, and his feast day is 7 August.


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