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CAJETAN (GAETANUS), CARDINAL (1470-1534)

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CAJETAN (GAETANUS), See also:CARDINAL (1470-1534) , was See also:born at See also:Gaeta in the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples. His proper name was Tommaso 1 de Vio, but he adopted that of Cajetan from his birthplace. He entered the See also:order of the See also:Dominicans at the See also:age of sixteen, and ten years later became See also:doctor of See also:theology at See also:Padua, where he was subsequently See also:professor of See also:metaphysics. A public disputation at See also:Ferrara (1494) with See also:Pico della See also:Mirandola gave him a See also:great reputation as a theologian, and in 1508 he became See also:general of his order. For his zeal in defending the papal pretensions against the See also:council of See also:Pisa, in a See also:series of See also:works which were condemned by the See also:Sorbonne and publicly burnt by order of See also:King See also:Louis XII., he obtained the bishopric of Gaeta, and in 1517 See also:Pope See also:Leo X. made him a cardinal and See also:archbishop of See also:Palermo. The See also:year following he went as See also:legate into See also:Germany, to quiet the commotions raised by See also:Luther. It was before him that the Reformer appeared at the See also:diet of See also:Augsburg; and it was he who, in 1519, helped in See also:drawing up the See also:bull of See also:excommunication against Luther. Cajetan was employed in several other negotiations and transactions, being as able in business as in letters. In See also:conjunction with Cardinal Giulio de' See also:Medici in the See also:conclave of 1521-1522, he secured the See also:election of See also:Adrian DedeI, See also:bishop of See also:Tortosa, as Adrian VI. Though as a theologian Cajetan was a scholastic of the older Thomist type, his general position was that of the moderate reformers of the school to which Reginald See also:Pole, archbishop of See also:Canterbury, also belonged; i.e. he desired to retain the best elements of the humanist revival in See also:harmony with See also:Catholic orthodoxy illumined by a revived appreciation of the Augustinian See also:doctrine of See also:justification. Nominated by See also:Clement VII. a member of the See also:committee of cardinals appointed to See also:report on the " See also:Nuremberg See also:Recess," he recommended, in opposition to the See also:majority, certain concessions to the See also:Lutherans, notably the See also:marriage of the See also:clergy as in the See also:Greek See also:Church, and communion in both kinds according to the decision of the council of See also:Basel. In this spirit he wrote commentaries upon portions of See also:Aristotle, and upon the Summa of See also:Aquinas, and towards the end of his. See also:life made a careful See also:translation of the Old and New Testaments, excepting See also:Solomon's See also:Song, the Prophets and the See also:Revelation of St See also:John.

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Italian cardinals of his See also:day, Cajetan was a See also:man of austere piety and fervent zeal; and if, from the standpoint of the Dominican See also:idea of the supreme See also:necessity of maintaining ecclesiastical discipline, he defended the extremist claims of the papacy, he also proclaimed that the pope should be " the See also:mirror of See also:God on See also:earth." He died at See also:Rome on the 9th of See also:August 1534. See " Aktenstucke fiber das Verhalten der romischen Kurie zur See also:Reformation, 1524-1531," in Quellen and Forschungen (Kon. Preass. Hist. Inst., Rome), vol. iii. p. 1-20; T. M. See also:Lindsay, See also:History of the Reformation, vol. i. (See also:Edinburgh, 1906).

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