Thomas Cajetan
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Thomas Cajetan, also known as Gaetanus or Cajetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio or Thomas de Vio, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, the Master of the Order of Preachers 1508 to 1518, and cardinal f
Detail from Luther and Cardinal Gaetani by Francesco Salviati, c. 1550 – c. 1560
The meeting of Cajetan and Martin Luther
Summula Caietani, 1530
Opuscula omnia, 1596
Dominican Order
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The Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by the Castilian priest Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved b
Thomas Cajetan
…The name Tommaso was taken as his religious as a friar, while the surname Cajetan derives from his native city. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Dominican order and devoted himself to the study of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, becoming before the age of thirty a doctor of theology at Padua, and subsequently…
Saint Dominic, portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
Saint Dominic (1170–1221), portrait by El Greco, about 1600
Saint Dominic on the front cover of Doctrina Christiana catechism in Spanish and Tagalog with an eight-pointed star (a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary) over his head. Woodcut cover. Printed in Manila in 1593.
Dominic's room at Maison Seilhan, in Toulouse, is considered the place where the order was born.