SOLIMENA, Francesco
(b. 1657, Canale di Serino, d. 1747, Barra)

Saint Cajetan Appeasing Divine Anger

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Fresco
San Paolo Maggiore, Naples

St Cajetan (Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, 1480-1547), was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, who helped found the Theatines, whose first church in Naples was San Paolo Maggiore. Members of the Theatine Order modeled themselves after the apostles. to whose lives they ascribed the virtues that formed the spiritual framework of life within the order.




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