Raymond of Capua

Blessed Raymond of Capua O.P.
Master General of the Order of Preachers
Born	ca. 1303[1] Capua, Kingdom of Naples
Died	5 October 1399 (aged 96) Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	15 May 1899, Saint Peter's Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Leo XIII
Major shrine	Church of San Domenico Maggiore, Naples, Italy
Feast	5 October
Attributes	Dominican habit

Raymond of Capua, (ca. 1303 – 5 October 1399) was a leading member of the Dominican Order and served as its Master General from 1380 until his death. First as Prior Provincial of Lombardy and then as Master General of the Order, Raymond undertook the restoration of Dominican religious life. For his success in this endeavor, he is referred to as its "second founder".^[2]

Raymond worked also for the return of the papacy to Rome and for a solution to the Western schism. The important mystic and author, Catherine of Siena, accepted him as a spiritual director because of his burning passion for the Church and for the revival of religious life. He was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1899.