RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Cajetan

1480 - 1547

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Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene (6 October 1480 – 7 August 1547), known in English as Saint Cajetan ( KAJ-ə-tən), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saint Cajetan is the 837th most popular religious figure (down from 752nd in 2019), the 1,089th most popular biography from Italy (down from 993rd in 2019) and the 284th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Saint Cajetan is most famous for being the founder of the Theatines.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Cajetan ranks 837 out of 3,187. Before him are Josephine Bakhita, Athenagoras of Athens, Peter Faber, Scipione Borghese, Maria Cristina of Savoy, and Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. After him are Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, Mammes of Caesarea, 6th Dalai Lama, John Nelson Darby, John of Rila, and Servatius of Tongeren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Saint Cajetan ranks 12. Before him are Lorenzo Lotto, Johann Georg Faust, Joachim Patinir, Gazi Husrev-beg, Götz von Berlichingen, and Pier Gerlofs Donia. After him are Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, Dosso Dossi, Palma Vecchio, Salaì, Marcantonio Raimondi, and Juan de Grijalva. Among people deceased in 1547, Saint Cajetan ranks 9. Before him are Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Vittoria Colonna, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Pietro Bembo. After him are Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, Johannes Schöner, Perino del Vaga, and Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Saint Cajetan ranks 1,089 out of 5,161. Before him are Gelon (-600), Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons (1638), Scipione Borghese (1577), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920), Maria Cristina of Savoy (1812), and Alessandro Marcello (1673). After him are Massimo Moratti (1945), Giuseppe Di Stefano (1921), Scipione del Ferro (1465), Italo Svevo (1861), Luigi Einaudi (1874), and Bernardino Luini (1475).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Saint Cajetan ranks 284. Before him are John of Capistrano (1386), Romuald (951), Justus (600), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), Scipione Borghese (1577), and Maria Cristina of Savoy (1812). After him are Antipope Ursicinus (400), Antipope Boniface VII (1000), Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901), Melania the Younger (383), Renato Martino (1932), and Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850).

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