A Patron for the Unemployed

Founded a bank to help the poor and offer an alternative to usurers (loan sharks)

~ About St. Cajetan, from Patron Saints Index

It's been a while since I've posted about a patron saint, and in browsing the wealth of
information to be found on the Patron Saints Index, I stumbled across St. Cajetan. I've
never heard of him before, but, like most saints, he was a busy guy who spent a lot of timeworking to leave the world a little better than he found it.

Cajetan (b.1480, d.1547) was from a noble family in Venice, Italy. He studied law and

was offered government positions, but decided he was called to be a priest. Like

our modern-day Mother Teresa, Cajetan felt called to work among the sick and poor.

He founded both a hospital and a bank, fufilling both ambitions, and he is the patron saint of unemployed people.

St. Cajetan. In our tough economic times, he's worth knowing about.