Raymond of Capua
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Raymond of Capua, (ca. 1303 – 5 October 1399) was a leading member of the Dominican Order and served as its Master General from 1380 until his death. First as Prior Provincial of Lombardy and then as Master General of the Order, Raymond undertook the restoration of Dominican religious life. For his success in this endeavor, he is referred to as its "second founder".[2]
Raymond worked also for the return of the
Life
He was born "Raymond della Vigna" about 1330 in
Raymond was first assigned to
Raymond spent the next six years advising her and hearing her confessions. While there, Raymond gradually learned to trust her holiness and her judgment. This was sealed when he became involved in nursing victims of a plague in 1374. When he contracted the disease himself and lay near death, Catherine came and sat at his bedside until he recovered. Knowing how close he was to death, Raymond credited his recovery to her prayers.
By 1374 Raymond had come to the attention of
Pope Gregory would finally return to Rome in 1377, but he died in 1378. The refusal of the French
In 1379 by command of Pope Urban VI Raymond was examined by Fra. Giacomo Altoviti who promoted him to the grade of Master of Theology.[3][4]
In the year 1380, Catherine died and Raymond was elected Master General of Dominican Order. He then divided his time between Italy and Germany. In the Caterinian spirit of reform, he gave a new spiritual vitality to the Order. Raymond favored the development of a new interpretation of "observance", for which he drew upon the
Veneration
Raymond was buried first in Nuremberg (now Germany), where he died, but his body was later moved to Naples, to the Church of San Domenico Maggiore. In 1899 Pope Leo XIII beatified him on the 500th anniversary of his death.[5]
Modern Editions and Translations
- Legenda maior, ed. Silvia Nocentini (Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013): A critical edition of his Vita of Catherine of Siena
- The Life of St. Catherine of Siena, trans. George Lamb (Harvill Press, 1960): An English translation of the Legenda maior
- P. Tylus (ed.), La 'Legenda Maior' de Raymond de Capoue en français ancien (= Textes vernaculaires du moyen age, 15). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. (an edition of two Middle French translations of the Raymond of Capua's Legenda maior.
References
- ^ Dominican Breviary, Vol II, 1967.
- ^ Catholic Online
- ^ Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. "4 -Mystics (1300s)". The Dominicans. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ Sienne, Catherine de (1843). Epistole della serafica Vergine S. Caterina da Siena, t. III, 1843, 93. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ "Blessed Raymond of Capua". curia.op.org.[dead link]
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