Feast day: August 7
St. Cajetan
An Italian priest who founded the Theatines to reform the clergy and started charitable pawnshops to rescue the poor from ruinous moneylenders.
He founded a 'mount of piety' — a non-profit pawnshop lending to the poor without crushing interest — and is invoked today by the unemployed and job seekers.
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