Predisposed to piousness by his mother, he exposed law in Padua, receiving his degree when doctor utriusque juris (we.e., around civil & ecclesiastical law) at age Two dozen. Around 1506 he worked as a diplomat for Pope Julius II with whom he helped reconcile the Venetian Republic. This history aside he did non advance to the priesthood till 1516.

Recalled to Vicenzthe in the below season per dying of his mother he founded a hospital for incurables there. His interests were as much or even further devoted to spiritual healing than a physical form. He designed to form a class action that would combine a spirit of monasticism sustaining the exercises of the active ministry. A demise of Pope Julius within 1523 led him to withdraw from either a court, founding an choose according to these ideals, a Oratory of Divine Love.

This newly congregation was canonically erected by Clement VII in 1524. One of his quaternity companions was Giovanni Pietro Caraffa, Bishop of Chieti (in Latin, Theate), after Paul IV, who was elected first superior, and from whose title arose the name Theatines. the choose grew at a fairly slow pace, still. There were merely Xii Theatines in a period of the sack of Rome in 1527. That event is said to own seen the children harassed by anti-Catholic forces, stimulating the children to flee to Venice in which he met St. Hieronymus Aemiliani. He assisted Hieronymus in the establishment of his Congregation of Clerks Regular. Around 1533 he founded a home inside Naples which aided people world health organization wished to prevent the advances of Lutheranism. A month 1540 witnessed him around Venice again & from either there he extended his act to Verona and Vicenza. Despite successes, he died of grief at a discords of Naples.

His beatification come within 1629 & canonisation within 1671. A Catholic Church keeps his feast on the 7th of August. His virtually all cited virtues are people of sedulous prayer and charity.